Quotemeal: Apr. 24th, 2025

Thursday, April 24, 2025

"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 yourself shall be the miracle."
— Phillips Brooks

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"Receive each day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life."
— William Law —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world."
— Mother Teresa —

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Illustration of Phillips Brooks — "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 yourself shall be the miracle."

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