Quote by Phillips Brooks
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

Other quotes by Phillips Brooks

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. – Phillips Brooks

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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

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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. – Jean de La Fontaine

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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands societys care. – Camille Paglia

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