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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." -
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Phillips Brooks
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Top 5 quotes from Phillips Brooks
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."
"The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
"Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner."
"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."
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