Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God,…

Phillips Brooks
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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1906). The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings
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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1906). The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings

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