We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.Phillips Brooks
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.
Phillips Brooks
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks
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