Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference…

— Henry Parry Liddon

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when…

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it…

— Henry Parry Liddon

But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

— Henry Parry Liddon

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate…

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

— Henry Parry Liddon