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 the miracle.

Phillips Brooks
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Mahatma Gandhi said, “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.” He was saying that people should not try to be weaker men. If you are trying, you are already a weaker man. Instead, you should ask God to make you stronger or use all of your strength. This is the only way that man can make a difference in the world, by using all of his strength and concentrating on making the right choices.

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