Quotes by Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

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 he was meant and made to do.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.