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Phillips Brooks Quotes: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
         

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.


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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.



Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.



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.

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.



O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.



I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.



Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.



Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.



The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.




If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

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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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.



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Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

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