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> [Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/wherever-souls-are-being-tried-and-ripened-in-whatever-commonplace/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

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## More by Phillips Brooks

> [Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/do-not-pray-for-tasks-equal-to-your-powers-pray-for-powers-equal-to/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/christmas-day-is-a-day-of-joy-and-charity-may-god-make-you-very-rich/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [Preaching is truth through personality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/preaching-is-truth-through-personality/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/nothing-lies-beyond-the-reach-of-prayer-except-that-which-lies/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/everywhere-the-flower-of-obedience-is-intelligence-obey-a-man-with/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/o-do-not-pray-for-easy-lives-pray-to-be-stronger-men-do-not-pray-for/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/so-shall-we-join-the-disciples-of-our-lord-keeping-faith-in-him-in/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/the-trouble-is-that-i-m-in-a-hurry-but-god-isn-t/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/the-truest-help-we-can-render-an-afflicted-man-is-not-to-take-his/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/the-danger-facing-all-of-us-let-me-say-it-again-for-one-feels-it/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/there-is-a-necessary-limit-to-our-achievement-but-none-to-our-attempt/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/character-some-day-you-will-be-wrestling-with-the-great-temptation-or/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/the-essential-tendency-of-life-is-toward-happiness-optimism-is-the/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [To find his place and fill it is success for a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/to-find-his-place-and-fill-it-is-success-for-a-man/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

> [It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/it-is-god-s-world-still-it-has-been-given-to-man-not-absolutely-but/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

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