Phillips Brooks Quotes

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I have the strength to endure it all.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.