Phillips Brooks

Poems Quotes Books Biography Comments Images

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Quote by Phillips Brooks

Click on the picture of Phillips Brooks quote you want to see a larger version.

Phillips Brooks Quotes

The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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 the miracle.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Best Quotes