"Do not pray for tasks equal to your……" — Phillips Brooks
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
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Phillips Brooks
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102 Quotes by Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks has 102 quotes on this site.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of…
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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More Equal Quotes
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Aristotle
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
— Aristotle
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than…
— David Bailey
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
— James M. Barrie
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