Henry Liddon: Quotes about Christ

Henry Liddon was British theologian. Explore interesting quotes on christ.

Henry Liddon: 38 quotes0 likes

“The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 4.

“Thus the word reveals the Divine Essence; His incarnation makes that Life, that Love, that Light, which is eternally resident in God obvious to souls that steadily contemplate Himself. These terms Life, Love, Light — so abstract, so simple, so suggestive — meet in God; but they meet also in Jesus Christ. They do not only make Him the centre of a philosophy; they belong to the mystic language of faith more truly than to the abstract terminalogy of speculative thought. They draw hearts to Jesus; they invest Him with a higher than any intellectual beauty.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 91.

“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, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 1.

“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.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 126.

“The Divine Christ has died on the cross a. victim for the sins of the world; what is He doing now? Did His redemptive love exhaust itself in the days of His flesh? The past has been forgiven; but has any provision been made for the future? Have we been reconciled to God by the death of His Son, but is there no salvation through His risen life?”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 92.

“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.”

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