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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.”

Henry Liddon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 201.

Truth

“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, and best able to give assistance to others without moral loss to ourselves.”

Henry Liddon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 547.

God , Feeling , Loss , Sincerity

“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.”

Henry Liddon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 209.

Life , Dependency

“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 Liddon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 457.

Life , Men , God , Angels

“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 discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.”

Henry Liddon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

Life , Death , God , Light