“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 the miracle.”
Quotes by Phillips Brooks
“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.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
Phillips BrooksPhillips Brooks was an influential American Episcopal clergyman and author, best known for his role as the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and his brief tenure as Bishop of Massachusetts. A prominen...