Quote by Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godwar

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. – 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

Category:
Opinion
Read Quote

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

Category:
power
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Wish, Wishes, Wishing
category

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. – Claudius

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. – Greg Anderson

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. – Johann von Goethe

Random Quotes

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost

Category:
Happiness

I dont mind saying, you know, that I dont take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. – Joel Osteen

Category:
God

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? – Abdul Kalam

Category:
Technology

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didnt support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. – Aldrich Ames

Category:
Intelligence