No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning you who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation or letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him someday.Phillips Brooks
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
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Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longerDeath is strong, but Life is strongerStronger than the dark, the lightStronger than the wrong, the right...
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
Phillips Brooks
As the Master Wills Slowly, through all the universe, the temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of Gods likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being, and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life, a living stone, is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely waysthere God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.
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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death that is not the great thing but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection not so much that we are to live forever as that we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
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