Talk:Phillips Brooks

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• Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

• Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

• 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.

• “Pattern your life after God, then go your way and be yourself.”
  – This quote is attributed to Philips Brooks on my grandmothers tombstone (d.1968). But I have not been able to find the source. MJBurrage (talk) 04:25, 20 December 2017 (UTC)