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There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

— Phillips Brooks

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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Primary Education (1916)

For 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.

Sermons (1879)

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

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

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