The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements. Henry Parry Liddon More Quotes by Henry Parry Liddon More Quotes From Henry Parry Liddon Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call. Henry Parry Liddon discipleshipsacrificelost 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. Henry Parry Liddon autumnmenyears 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. Henry Parry Liddon enduranceperseverancemen If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less than that of individuals; it must control a Christian when acting in his public and political capacity as completely as when he is engaged in the duties which belong to him as a member of a family circle. Henry Parry Liddon circleschristianmen The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter. Henry Parry Liddon easterspiritualmean 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 convictionreligioustoo-late So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again. Henry Parry Liddon winningheartbelieve Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way. Henry Parry Liddon gratefulkindnessphilosophy When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter. Henry Parry Liddon doneknowingmind Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her. Henry Parry Liddon sooner-or-laterstoresresponsibility It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth. Henry Parry Liddon greatnesssoulmind Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever. Henry Parry Liddon envyexcellencesoul The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it. Henry Parry Liddon differentlawmean If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns. Henry Parry Liddon lawmentwo Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen. Henry Parry Liddon unseendoctrinechristian Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and let us ask ourselves whether it should or should not make any difference in our present state of being. Henry Parry Liddon differencesblessedthinking 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. Henry Parry Liddon realchristianityfound Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness. Henry Parry Liddon churchkindmatter Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God. Henry Parry Liddon angelprayermen 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 would differ as widely. But in one thing, amid all their differences, they would probably agree: they would lack the variety, both in form and substance, of the Holy Book which the Church of God places in the hands of her children. Henry Parry Liddon bookchildrenhands
