Phillips Brooks Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Thinking, Wings

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Prayer

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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

• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Tasks, Praying

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

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

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Prayer, Wish

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

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Christian, Prayer

  Phillips Brooks, Henry Drummond (189?). “Addresses”

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Lying, Gods Will

• 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

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

• 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

  Prayer, Men, Stronger

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

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Wings, Praying

• 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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Beautiful, Prayer, Giving

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

• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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

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