Phillips Brooks Quotes

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

I think my spirit is far greater than it's ever been.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people.

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.