The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.Phillips Brooks
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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