HENRY PARRY LIDDON QUOTES
English theologian (1829-1890)
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
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 guide us upwards to Him.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
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
letter on the Editor of the Times, November 30, 1874
Patriotism is a virtue, no doubt: and it is a duty to cherish patriotism in ourselves and others. But patriotism means wishing well to our country, and the question is what is this "well". Lord Beaconsfield would say "material prosperity, grandeur, increase of power and territory"; Mr. Gladstone would say "that our country may act virtuously". If patriotism is an extension of the feeling which we have about our relatives, Mr. Gladstone is surely right; we wish our relatives to be good men in the first instance, and then successful men, if success is compatible with goodness. I cannot understand how many excellent people fail to feel thus about their country too; it would seem to me that exactly in the proportion in which we realise the fact that a nation is only a very overgrown family which has kept open house for some centuries will be our anxiety that this country should act as a good man would act; and that patriotism consists in wishing this.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
letter to C. T. Redington, January 13, 1879
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice: everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
Often enough it is little that can be done in an old country, where life is ruled by fixed and imperious traditions; while much may be done where all is yet fluid, and where, if religion is sometimes unprotected and unrecognised, she is not embarrassed by influences which deaden or cramp her best energies at home.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
letter to C. T. Redington, January 13, 1879
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
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
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
We have had a most interesting missionary from Zanzibar staying here. He has lived for three years quite alone among the Africans, carrying his life in his hand. He can now preach in three languages, and has baptised a great many natives, including some Mohammedans. He seems to have a most remarkable influence over the kings and chiefs in that part of Africa, who regard him as having a charmed life. At Magila he has built a mud church, in which Lord Penzance is not exactly obeyed, but a great deal of good is done to souls, nevertheless.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
letter to Miss Mirehouse, August 20, 1878