There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher… — 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 equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
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 life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel that life has no meaning at all--not these things. The danger is that we may… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
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 struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
