The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. - Phillips Brooks
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Sight-Seeing: Born out of national division, 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' is a balm for Christmas - Sight Magazine KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR says 150 years after Phillips Brooks wrote this haunting carol, there is much once again to lament, fear and grieve...

Sight-Seeing: Born out of national division, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ is a balm for Christmas. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SightSeeing #OLittleTownofBethlehem #PhillipsBrooks #Christmas #Christmascarols #overcomingdivisions #AbrahamLincoln

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Scenes from #CopleySquare #boston today - half #farmersmarket, half construction site. #JohnSCopley looks concerned while #PhillipsBrooks looks fierce. irishboston.org/2020/18th-ce...
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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven; because if you do not give yourself in sympathy to goodness, goodness cannot give itself in influence to you. Phillips Brooks

« Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven; because if you do not give yourself in sympathy to goodness, goodness cannot give itself in influence to you. »

― Phillips Brooks

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