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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 Liddon Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)

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

Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)

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.

Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

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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.

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