Quotes from Phillips Brooks
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
- Phillips Brooks
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
- 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.
- Phillips Brooks
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
- Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
- Phillips Brooks
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
- Phillips Brooks
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
- Phillips Brooks
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
- Phillips Brooks
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
- Phillips Brooks
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
- Phillips Brooks
Death is strong, but Life is stronger.
- Phillips Brooks