Quotes from Henry Drummond

The spiritual man having passed from Death unto Life, the natural man must next proceed to pass from Life unto Death. Having opened the new set of correspondences, he must deliberately close up the old. Regeneration in short must be accompanied by Degeneration.

The distinctions drawn between men are commonly based on the outward appearance of goodness or badness, on the ground of moral beauty or moral deformity

Do you know the meaning of the word 'gentleman'? It means someone who does things gently. That is the whole art and mystery of Love.

Stephen Grellet wrote: '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.

The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you.

Love is the highest, the pinnacle…Just as a rose in full bloom is greater than the stem that bears it, so, while faith is most needful, and hope most cheering, love is the most beautiful and brightest of the three." ~ Charles Spurgeon

There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, 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 it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Man's spiritual life consists in the number and fulness of his correspondences with God. In order to develop these he may be constrained to insulate them, to enclose them from the other correspondences, to shut himself in with them. In many ways the limitation of the natural life is the necessary condition of the full enjoyment of the spiritual life. Natural Law, Mortification

Man is a mass of correspondences, and because of these, because he is alive to countless objects and influences to which lower organisms are dead, he is the most living of all creatures.

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

The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.

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 have truly Lived - Are the moments in which you have done things in the Spirit of Love!