“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 Liddon

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

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British theologian 1829–1890

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