H. P. Liddon Quotes

Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely, that we are most likely to be really improving,...

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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Resignation,— not to a whirlwind of inexorable forces, not to powers that cannot see or hear or feel, but to One who lives forever, and who loves us well, and who has given us all that we have, ay,...

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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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 years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our...

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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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 its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for...

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to...

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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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 enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this...

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life.

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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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 been seriously tried.

H. P. Liddon

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - 1895.

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