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

— 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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