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God Quotes by Phillips Brooks
- A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
- Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in…
- Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- 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…
- Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and…
- No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has…
- Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
- Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this…
- No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought…
- 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…
- 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…
- The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless…
- Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
- The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
- Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must…
- It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one…
- How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his…
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's…
More God Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain