Religion Quotes by Henry Parry Liddon

11 Religion quotes by Henry Parry Liddon

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Liddon’s Anglican insights are captured in eleven compact lines that convey his reverent tone. This modest set offers a quick taste of his theological depth.

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The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never…

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

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The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

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If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations…

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No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and…

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If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the…

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Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be…

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Often enough it is little that can be done in an old country, where life is ruled by fixed and imperious traditions;…

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The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It…

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If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would…

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A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as…

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

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Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the…

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So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone…

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Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few…

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It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has…

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A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by…

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If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less…

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Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass…

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It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly…

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Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They…

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Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the…

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I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what…

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The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

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The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks…

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If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

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