Phillips Brooks

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 with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

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

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 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God.

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 the miracle.

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

It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

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

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.