HENRY PARRY LIDDON QUOTES III

English theologian (1829-1890)

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford


No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford


When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

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