Quotes by Henry Drummond

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) — Evangelist · Evangelikal · Schottland

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) war ein schottischer Naturwissenschaftler, Hochschullehrer am Free Church College in Glasgow und evangelikaler Evangelist. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Auslegung von 1. Korinther 13 in der Schrift „Das Größte der Welt“ sowie durch seine Versuche, christlichen Glauben und zeitgenössische Naturwissenschaft zu verbinden, was ihm in konservativen Kirchenkreisen theologische Kritik einbrachte. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem als prägnanter Ausleger der christlichen Nächstenliebe.

Era: Revival & the 19th Century

Recurring topics: Love, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Growth & Character, Discipleship, Service & Love of Neighbour, Faith & Trust, Meaning & Identity, Witness & Mission

Quotes by Henry Drummond

Christ never failed to distinguish between doubt and unbelief. Doubt is can’t believe. Unbelief is won’t believe. Doubt is honesty. Unbelief is obstinacy. Doubt is looking for light. Unbelief is content with darkness.

Henry Drummond

Love is greater than faith, because the goal (God) is greater than the way that leads to him (faith).

Henry Drummond

The power of one's own will cannot change a person; time does not change him either. But Christ does, if we ask him to.

Henry Drummond

When God speaks He speaks so loudly that all the voices of the world seem dumb. And yet when God speaks He speaks so softly that no one hears the whisper but yourself.

Henry Drummond

The end of life is not to do good, although many of us think so. It is not to win souls, although I once thought so. The end of life is to do the will of God whatever it may be.

Henry Drummond

The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything.

Henry Drummond

A person's life is the mission, not their words. Their deeds drown out their words.

Henry Drummond

The most exciting teaching of Jesus is that there is no true happiness in having and taking, but only in giving.

Henry Drummond

Have you ever noticed how much of Christ’s life was spent in doing kind things?

Henry Drummond

Missionaries can bring other peoples nothing greater than the victory of God's love in their own lives.

Henry Drummond

We can love others, we can love everyone, because God loved us first.

Henry Drummond

Nothing worse can happen to a person than to live and grow old unloved and without love of his own.

Henry Drummond

Freedom and happiness do not unfold in having and taking, but only in giving.

Henry Drummond

Eternal life means knowing and loving God.

Henry Drummond

To become like Christ is the only thing in the world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Henry Drummond

No one can serve two masters. Many of the difficulties in wanting to live a Christian life come from wanting to live it only by halves.

Henry Drummond

Love is happiness, love is life, yes, love is the power to live.

Henry Drummond

There is much in the world that is beautiful, attractive and enriching, but none of it lasts.

Henry Drummond

No one can become a saint while asleep.

Henry Drummond

Give your kindness away.

Henry Drummond

When love has completely disappeared from our life, the danger is near that we throw life away.

Henry Drummond

No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to un-Christianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off childhood; in short, for sheer gratuitous misery-producing power, this influence stands alone.

Henry Drummond

A human heart does not become loving by shielding it from bad influences. Nor does it become morally better by trying to suppress the evil recognizable in it. It is only changed by something else entering it: a great love, a new spirit, the spirit of Jesus Christ.

Henry Drummond

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