Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness. Phillips Brooks More Quotes by Phillips Brooks More Quotes From Phillips Brooks No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. Phillips Brooks preaching christian men Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Phillips Brooks pillars soul way Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. Phillips Brooks purpose might mean The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. Phillips Brooks obedience demand faith Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end. Phillips Brooks opinion change god While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. Phillips Brooks angel sleep watches The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made. Phillips Brooks battle gun character Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants. Phillips Brooks life-and-death want helping The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. Phillips Brooks touching men christ The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself. Phillips Brooks light missing fall 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 letting-go way past Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present. Phillips Brooks future quality strange Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. Phillips Brooks best-nature use Obedience completes itself in understanding. Phillips Brooks obedience understanding Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. Phillips Brooks loyalty flower men It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened. Phillips Brooks voice god beautiful The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God. Phillips Brooks knowing-god sin behavior 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 the miracle. Phillips Brooks 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. Phillips Brooks Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. Phillips Brooks
