It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. – Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks
In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. – 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