Henry Parry Liddon Quotes
Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.
A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.
Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.
Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.