Conditions Quote by Phillips Brooks

“The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.”

Phillips Brooks

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

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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…

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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

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“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…

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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

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