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Phillips Brooks Quotes about Prayer

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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.

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
Prayer, Thinking, Wings
Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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
Prayer, Men, Stronger
"Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Phillips Brooks
Inspirational, Being Strong, Prayer

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

Phillips Brooks
Prayer, Lying, Gods Will

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Phillips Brooks
Inspirational, Christian, Prayer
Phillips Brooks, Henry Drummond (189?). “Addresses”

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Phillips Brooks
Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks
God, Prayer, Wish
Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks
Prayer, Tasks, Praying
Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

Phillips Brooks
Beautiful, Prayer, Giving
Phillips Brooks, H. L. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks
Prayer, Wings, Praying

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