Quotes from Henry Parry Liddon
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
Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.
- 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
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
Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.
- 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 eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.
- Henry Parry Liddon
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
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
- Henry Parry Liddon
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
- Henry Parry Liddon
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
The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
- 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 laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
- Henry Parry Liddon