Life is too short to nurse one’s misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

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 (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

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.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)