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Henry Parry Liddon Quotes: Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
         

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.


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Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.



The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.



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.

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.



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.

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.





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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

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