Phillips Brooks Quotes

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.

When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world.

You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.

Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

There is a power within you that will free you!

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.