Phillips Brooks - Lives Quotes

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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 you by the grace of God.

Phillips Brooks
For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Phillips Brooks
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

Phillips Brooks
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.

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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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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

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Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

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The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

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