Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman,  1835 – 1893)

The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father’s will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ’s sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)