Belief Quote by Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

— Phillips Brooks

Preaching is truth through personality.

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Phillips Brooks

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— Phillips Brooks

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

— 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…

— Phillips Brooks