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Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Change, Creed, Fog, Opinion, Opinions, Week

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Except, Gods Will, Lies, Lying, Nothing, Prayer

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Charity, Christmas, Day, Joy, Xmas

So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.

Days, Faith, Friday, Keeping, Light, Loyalty

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

Action, Eye, Generalization, Law, World

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

Earth, Heaven, Lose, Star, Stars, Work

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Dawn, Life, Meaning, Tasks, Toiling

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

God, Hurry, Trouble

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Darkness, Friday, Light, Sin

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Appeal, Argument, Conviction, Earnest, Pointedness, Scripture

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Consecrated, Doe, Great Men, Men, Take

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Future, Letting Go, Past, Teach, Way

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Christianity, Faces, Helping, Like, Music, Tunes

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

Fullness, Grateful, Honesty, Life, Saviour

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

God, Large, Pray, Prayer, Thinking, Wings

The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

Christian, Enter, Friday, Hearers, Jesus, Let

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Christian, Man, Men, Preaching, Sermon

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Best Nature, Everything, Keeps, Nature, Use

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Country, Intemperance, Left, Poverty, Would Be

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Away, Eye, Firsts, Heaven, Truths, Unveil

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