01UndatedYou will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
02UndatedHalf the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
03In print by 1911 ADI wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!Henry Drummond / quote ↗
04In print by 1911 ADA lily grows mysteriously, pushing up its solid weight of stem and leaf in the teeth of gravity. Shaped into beauty by secret and invisible fingers, the flower develops we know not how. But we do not wonder at it. Every day the thing is done; it is Nature, it is God. We are spiritual enough at least to understand that. But when the soul rises slowly above the world, pushing up its delicate virtues in the teeth of sin, shaping itself mysteriously into the image of Christ, we deny that the power is not of man. A strong will, we say, a high ideal, the reward of virtue, Christian influence—these will account for it. Spiritual character is merely the product of anxious work, self-command, and self-denial. We allow, that is to say, a miracle to the lily, but none to the man. The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
05In print by 1911 ADThe first principle of Christianity is to forget one's self. When Wilberforce was straining every energy to get his bill for the emancipation of slaves passed, a lady once said to him, "Mr. Wilberforce, I'm afraid you are so busy about those slaves that you are neglecting your own soul." "True, madam," he said; "I had quite forgotten that I have one." That remark contains one of the deepest truths of Christianity.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
07Undated... something wholly new in religious thought. All other heavens have been gardens, dreamlands: passivities, more or less aimless. Even to the majority among ourselves, heaven is a siesta and not a city.The heaven of Christianity is different from all other heavens, because the religion of Christianity is different from all other religions. Christianity is the religion of cities. It moves among real things. Its sphere is the street, the market-place, the working life of the world... Try to restore the natural force of the expression - suppose John to have lived today and to have said 'I saw a new London.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
08UndatedTo love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
11UndatedI wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!Henry Drummond / quote ↗
12UndatedYou will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
13UndatedYou will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
15UndatedStrength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.Henry Drummond / quote ↗
