To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within …

Phillips Brooks
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To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks
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Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: The cand … ▶
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1838). Sermons, p.299
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1 … ▶
Character - Some day, 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 deci … ▶
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks

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