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A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

— Henry Liddon

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

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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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