Quote#God & Faith
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray…
Quote byPhillips Brooks · 1835–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (1886), p. 330..
English (original)
O, 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 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
— Phillips Brooks
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