Henry Drummond
Scottish evangelist, naturalist and author, 1851-1897
16 quotes.
Quotes by Henry Drummond
- A farm is not a place for growing corn, it is a place for growing character, and a man has no character except that which is developed by his life and thought.
- And if we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. The respect of another is the first restoration of the self-respect a man has lost; our ideal of what he is becomes to him the hope and pattern of what he may become.
- God is all for quality; man is for quantity.
- Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others.
- He is a great man who has a great plan to his life — the greatest who has the greatest plan and keeps it.
- If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fibre, no beauty of spiritual growth.
- Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action.
- Nothing is a hardship to Love, and nothing is hard.
- "The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children."
- We say we exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls.
- You are placed where you are, in a particular business, in a particular street, to help on there the Kingdom of God.
- You may have God in your character without having God in your career.
- You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are people who believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative fellowship.
- You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are people who believe in you.
- You will give yourselves to many things, give yourself first to Love.
- You will find as you look back on your life that the moments that stand out above everything else, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.