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Prayer Quotes by Phillips Brooks
- A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
- I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
- Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- 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…
- 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…
- Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
- If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
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