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  • O, do not pray for easy lives.

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    Strength   Being Strong   Stay Strong  
    Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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

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    Inspirational   Being Strong   Prayer  

  • 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.

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    Christian   Spiritual   Prayer  

  • 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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    Beautiful   Prayer   Giving  
    Phillips Brooks, H. L. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

  • Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

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    Prayer   Wings   Praying  

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

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    Inspirational  
    Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

  • 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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    Inspirational   Christian   Prayer  
    Phillips Brooks, Henry Drummond (189?). “Addresses”

  • 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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    Prayer   Thinking   Wings  
    Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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

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    Prayer  
    Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

  • 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.

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    Prayer   Men  
    "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.

  • Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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    Prayer   Praying  
    Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

  • Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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Phillips Brooks

  • Born: December 13, 1835
  • Died: January 23, 1893
  • Occupation: Clergyman
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