Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is good to come to a future which you do not know. It is good if God brings you to the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“The danger facing all of us--let me say it again, for one feels it tremendously--is not that we shall make an absolute failure of… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
