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.”

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

“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”

“... 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.”

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

“The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“No man can become a saint in his sleep.”