Henry Drummond Quotes

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

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• Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

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• 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.

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

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

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• The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

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• Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

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

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• No man can become a saint in his sleep.

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• He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

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• Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.

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• 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.

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• To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

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Birth:	17th August, 1851
Death:	11th March, 1897
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Evangelist, Lecturer, Writer

About

Henry Drummond was born in Stirling, Scotland. He was a Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer. He was educated at Edinburgh University. In 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He wrote several books include: Natural Law in the Spiritual World, Tropical Africa, Love, the supreme gift, The Greatest Thing in the World, The Ascent of Man, The ideal life, The Monkey That Would Not Kill, The New Evangelism and Other Papers, and The changed life. In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church College on Lynedoch Street in Glasgow.

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