Henry Drummond
Henry Drummond FRSE FGS was a Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer. He was a friend and contemporary of the Rev. John Watson (the Kailyard novelist Ian Maclaren) at Stirling High School and the University of Edinburgh.
Many of his writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few men exercised more religious influence in their own generation, especially on young men. His sermon The Greatest Thing in the World remains popular in Christian circles.
“Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.”
Henry Drummond
“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”
Henry Drummond
“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
Henry Drummond
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
Henry Drummond
“You will find as you look upon your life that the moments that you truely live are the moments you have done things in the spirit of love”
Henry Drummond
“He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon out equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we do the least of all.”
Henry Drummond
“I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!”
Henry Drummond
“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”
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