Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. – Phillips Brooks
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. – Phillips Brooks
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