Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process. ✨…

Phillips Brooks
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Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1906). The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings
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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 … ▶
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1838). Sermons, p.299
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. ✨ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 191 … ▶
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1906). The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings

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