If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual Bible! There would be as many Bibles as there are souls, and they… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them. And they are like children in their power of discovering, by a rapid and sure instinct, who likes… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her. — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
