Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Trust implies limitation, either of knowledge or power; but the action is sometimes a hazardous one, as it involves great risk. We must make our faith dependent, as the old explorers and inventors did, upon the action of a law which we have hitherto taken for granted...
This autumn it was again taken up, but every one had lost faith in the management of the Newell club, and men were unwilling to waste their time and chances there. A few crews were scraped together, however, but the club was not a success...
...last throughout his life-time. It shows him turning from the license of fancy and the affluence of sentiment that characterize his Storm and Stress Period, to a serener and truer view of life, --a view at once idealistic and realistic in that it blends a lofty faith in the moralities with psychological truth of character. "Iphigenie" is not, however, a realistic play in the sense of the extreme modern school, but it is profoundly realistic in the deeper sense in which Shakspere is realistic, by its faithful reproduction of human passions and of the interplay of human motives...
...friend. His simplicity invited people, who might have felt a certain reticence in going to other great men, to seek him as a friend. Bishop Brooks was not interested in talking about himself, but he poured out his whole soul in his preaching. His greatness was in his faith in God and his faith in Heaven. His personality was such an inspiration that one seemed filled with a new life after talking with him. He loved young men and boys, he loved Harvard, and loved to talk of any plan for Harvard's higher development. On the day of Phillips...
...practical religion. This same relationship between speculative religion and the simple way of living had existed for ages, and it was this state of affairs against which Bishop Brooks made his protest. The innermost key to the power of the great divine was his perfect balance between religious faith and true moral living. Religion at Harvard, as seen by an outsider, may be considered from three points of view. The point of view which may be taken from the Phillips Brooks House shows a gathering of men who have a manly simplicity of purpose and a real desire to serve...