Quotes of Henry Drummond - somelinesforyou

“ Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ You 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

“ There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the body and the mind. If a man does not exercise his arm, he develops no biceps muscles and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of spiritual growth… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 Souls are not made sweet by taking out, but by putting something in — a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more — love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for? Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it? It is just the opposite: it is to make its burden light. Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plow would be intolerable; worked by means of a yoke, it is light… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The tendency of the religions of all time has been to care more for religion than for humanity: Christ cared more for humanity than for religion — rather, His care for humanity was the chief expression of His religion… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The tendency of the religions of all time has been to care more for religion than for humanity: Christ cared more for humanity than for religion — rather, His care for humanity was the chief expression of His religion… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition… ”

- Henry Drummond

“ To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Half of 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

“ Happiness consists in giving, and in serving others. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ I 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

“ Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Happiness consists in giving, and in serving others. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ I 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

“ On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ You 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

“ I 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

“ The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ”

- Henry Drummond
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