Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks, Volume 3E.P. Dutton, 1900 |
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233 CLARENDON STREET affectionately apostolical succession Arthur Brooks asked beautiful believe Bishop Brooks bless Boston Brooks's called Christ Christian clergy congregation consecration convention DEAR delight diocese divine doctrine election England Episcopal Church expression faith Faneuil Hall feel felt friends give glad God's Harvard hear heard heart hope House of Bishops human impression Incarnation interest James Freeman Clarke Jesus kind knew lectures letter live look Lord McVickar means mind minister ministry morning nature never Nicene Creed North Andover once parish Phillips Brooks Prayer preached preacher pulpit question rejoice religion religious Robert Treat Paine seemed sermon soul speak spirit spoke stood strong Sunday sure sympathy talk tell Tennyson thank theology things thought tion Trinity Church true truth Unitarian utterance whole wish words writes wrote
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Page 155 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 249 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...
Page 507 - Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
Page 297 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Page 13 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might — Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 228 - He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Page 397 - Christ, The only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, Begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; By whom all things were made; Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was made incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man...
Page 302 - For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 141 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, From the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water.
Page 342 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.