Phillips Brooks Prayer Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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

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.