The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
Phillips BrooksRead
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Interpretation
We should show patience and understanding towards the shortcomings of others, just as we wish them to understand ours.
This quote by Phillips Brooks emphasizes the importance of empathy and tolerance in our interactions with others. It encourages us to reflect on our own faults and apply the same understanding we hope to receive to those around us, promoting a spirit of compassion and acceptance in relationships.
In practice
In a team meeting, when colleagues make mistakes, I could remind everyone of Phillips Brooks' quote to foster a constructive atmosphere.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
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.
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.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.
Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.
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