Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. – Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. – 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
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. – Phillips Brooks
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own…. It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. – James Gleick, 1993