The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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To hold your truth, to believe it with all your heart, to work with all your might, first to make it real to yourself and then to show its preciousness to other men, and then not till then, but then to leave the questions of when and how and by whom it shall prevail to God that is the true life of the believer. There is no feeble unconcern and indiscriminateness there, and neither is there any excited hatred of the creed, the doctrine, or the Church, which you feel wholly wrong. You have not fled out of the furnace of bigotry to freeze on the open and desolate plains of indifference. You believe and yet you have no wish to persecute.Phillips Brooks
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
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.
Phillips Brooks
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond but most people only look at it and so they see only the dead letter.
Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
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