No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet. Henry Parry Liddon More Quotes by Henry Parry Liddon More Quotes From Henry Parry Liddon The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none. Henry Parry Liddon silver church gold 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. Henry Parry Liddon heaven two reality 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. Henry Parry Liddon fellow-man men looks A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close. Henry Parry Liddon ocean eye life