Phillips Brooks Quotes


O, 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 to you by the grace of God.


Citations

Brooks, Phillips. Twenty Sermons. E. P. Dutton & Company, 1886, p. 330.

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Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
  • Born: December 13, 1835
  • Died: January 23, 1893
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Clergyman

Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".