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# Phillip Brooks

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Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries. Among his other accomplishments

##  Quotes by Phillip Brooks

> [“Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-brooks/some-day-in-years-to-come-you-will-be-wrestling-with-the-great/)

Phillip Brooks

[Grief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grief/)

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> [Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-brooks/do-not-pray-for-easy-lives-pray-to-be-stronger-men-do-not-pray-for-2/)

Phillip Brooks

[Pray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pray/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b4/phillip-brooks-110493_prayer_do-not-pray-for-easy-lives-pray-to-be-st_2043226.jpg)

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