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O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

— Phillips Brooks

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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Primary Education (1916)

For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Sermons (1879)

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

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