"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 ..."
- Phillips Brooks
"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."
"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 ..."
"If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing."
"Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented w..."
"0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by."
"Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Ea..."
"As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything."
"Happiness is the natural flower of duty."