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

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks

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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. – Phillips Brooks

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