Quotes by Phillips Brooks

“Do not pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men.Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.Pray for powers equal to your tasks.Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be t...”

“Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.”

“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall ...”

“If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.”

“Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contente...”

“The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of ang...”

“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatne...”

“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”

“Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.”

“No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”

“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”

“Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'”

“To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.”

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”

“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.”

“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire ...”

“Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.”

“It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.”

“It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men. ”