March 5

“It is the oneness of the soul’s life with God’s life that at once makes us try to be like Him, and brings forth our unlikeness to Him. It is the source at once of aspiration and humility. The more aspiration the more humility. Humility comes by aspiration. If, in all Christian history, it has been the souls which most looked up that were the humblest souls; if to-day the rescue of a soul from foolish pride must be not by a depreciation of present attainment, but by opening more and more the vastness of the future possibility; if the Christian man keeps his soul full of the sense of littleness, even in all his hardest work for Christ, not by denying his own stature, but by standing up at his whole height, and then looking up in love and awe and seeing God tower into infinitude above him – certainly all this stamps the morality which is wrought out within the idea of Jesus with this singular excellence, that it has solved the problem of faithfulness and pride, and made possible humility by aspiration.”

PHILLIPS BROOKS

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

PHIL. iv. 13