Christian Quotation of the Day

May 28, 1999

    Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, 
        Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089

    The great danger facing all of us... is not that we shall 
make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into 
outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, 
nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all -- not 
these things.  The danger is that we may fail to perceive 
life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss 
its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the 
most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the 
light of the Presence of God -- and be content to have it so -- 
that is the danger: that some day we may wake up and find that 
always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and 
have really missed life itself.  For life without God, to one 
who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is 
unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one's friends 
may be spared -- satisfaction with a life that falls short of 
the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a 
friendship with the Father.
                       ... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), Sermons

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