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Phillips Brooks
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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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I
do not see how we can help thinking about God when He is so
good to us all the time. Let me tell you how it seems to me that
we come to know about our heavenly Father. It is from the power
of love which is in our own hearts. Love is at the soul of
everything. Whatever has not the power of loving must have a very dreary life
indeed. We like to think that the sunshine and the winds and the
trees are able to love in some way of their own, for it would make
us know that they were happy if we knew that they could love. And
so God who is the greatest and happiest of all beings is the most
loving too. All the love that is in our hearts comes from him,
as all the light which is in the flowers comes from the sun.
And
the more we love, the more near we are to God and His Love.
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Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for
powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work
shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
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If you limit
the search for truth and forbid men anywhere, in any way,
to seek knowledge, you paralyze the vital force of truth
itself. In the best sense of the word, Jesus was a radical. His
religion has
been so long identified with conservation -- often with
conservatism
of the obstinate and unyielding sort -- that it is almost
startling for
us sometimes to remember that all of the conservatism of his
own
times was against him; that it was the young, free,
restless, sanguine,
progressive part of the people who flocked to him.
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Dreadful
will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one
great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad
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 a child of God.
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Character may be manifested in the great
moments, but it is made in the small ones. |
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No
man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle,
pure, and good without the world being better for it, without
somebody
being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. |
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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... 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. |
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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.
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Phillips
Brooks is best known today as the author of "O Little Town of
Bethlehem." Former generations, however, accounted him the
greatest American preacher of the nineteenth century (and not for
lack of other candidates). His sermons are still read.
He was born in
Boston in 1835 and educated at Harvard and at Virginia Theological
Seminary. After ten years of ministry at two churches in
Philadelphia, he returned to Boston in 1869 and was rector of
Trinity Church there until 1891. He was then elected Bishop of
Massachusetts, and died two years later.
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