Phillips Brooks - Prayer Quotes

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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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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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

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Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

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