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Phillips Brooks Quotes about God

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks
God, Prayer, Wish
Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

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.

Phillips Brooks
Life, God, Greatness

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

Phillips Brooks
God, Confidence, Children
"Sermons".

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

Phillips Brooks
Beautiful, God, Voice
Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Phillips Brooks
Change, God, Opinion
"The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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