Quotes from Henry Drummond

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

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

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

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

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

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.

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

You 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.

Why do we want to live for ever? Because we hope that tomorrow will bring us someone we can love. Because we want to live another day with the person we love beside us. Because we want to find someone who deserves our Love and who, in turn, will know how to love us as we deserve to be loved. That is why, when a man has no one to love him, he feels a great desire to die. As long as he has friends, people who love him and whom he loves too, he will live. Because to live is to love.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

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.

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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

You cannot give anything more important than the Love reflected in your own life. That is the one true universal language, which allows us to speak Chinese or the dialects of India. For if, one day, you go to those places, the silent eloquence of Love will mean that you will be understood by everyone.

You know the meaning of the word gentleman. It means a gentle man—a man who does things gently, with love. That is the whole art and mystery of it. The gentle man cannot in the nature of things do an ungentle, an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature, cannot do anything else. Love doth not behave itself unseemly.

Courtesy is Love in little things.

The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.

Love is the fulfilling of the law. Did you ever think what he meant by that? In those days men were working the passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ came and said, I will show you a more simple way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving . . . half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.

Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.

What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. . . . What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing else. 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.