Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace an…

Phillips 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 candle of the Lord, and other sermons
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1886). Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1838) … ▶

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 candle of the Lord, and other sermons

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