"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden."
- Phillips Brooks
"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."
"Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward."
"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward."
"Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use."
"Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger."
"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."
"To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to m..."