"Beautiful Thoughts"
()
About this ebook
Henry Drummond
Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer. Many of his writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few men exercised more religious influence in their own generation, especially on young men. His sermon "The Greatest Thing in the World" remains popular in Christian circles.
Read more from Henry Drummond
The Greatest Thing in the World and 7 Other Addresses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Monkey That Would Not Kill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne Law: Henry Drummond on Nature's Law, Spirit, and Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Henry Drummond Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe New Evangelism and Other Papers: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ascent of Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Addresses: With an Essay on Religion by James Young Simpson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful Thoughts From Henry Drummond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAddresses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ideal Life and Other Unpublished Addresses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStones Rolled Away and Other Addresses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stone Rolled Away and Other Addresses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEternal Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNatural Law in the Spiritual World & Love, the Greatest Thing in the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest Thing in the World and Other Writings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The New Evangelism, and Other Addresses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Henry Drummond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest Thing in the World: And Other Addresses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove, the Greatest Thing In the World: Including The Changed Life, Dealing with Doubt, Lessons from the Angelus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Collected Works of Henry Drummond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPax Vobiscum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to "Beautiful Thoughts"
Related ebooks
"Beautiful Thoughts" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Henry Drummond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Immutable Laws of the Akashic Field: Universal Truths for a Better Life and a Better World Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Place of Wonder: Where Science, Faith, and Intent Meet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Epistle Concerning the Purpose of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book Of Light A Glimpse Into Eternity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJesus Is Adam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecrets of a Medium: How to Prepare Yourself Mentally, Physically, and Spiritually to Be A Medium Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why You Were Born: The Chronological Story of Your Existence from the Beginning of Creation to Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFootprints of the Divine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInfinite Reach: Spirituality in a Scientific World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKey To Yourself Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Secular Bible For Today's World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Believe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Time and Eternity Kiss: A Bold New Vision of Human Destiny, God, and the Bible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImmaterial Existence: No Map To Reality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Future Of Humanity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Free Will Zone: 300,000 Years of Quarantine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Poems of Progress Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEternity: A Trilogy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNatural Law, the Zero Point Field, and the Spirit That Is Holy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpirituality: Mankind's Biggest Folly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssays on Consciousness: Towards a New Paradigm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Father and His Family Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Life Magnet Volume 3 of 5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Classics For You
The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Confederacy of Dunces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Master and Margarita Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights (with an Introduction by Mary Augusta Ward) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn French! Apprends l'Anglais! THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: In French and English Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things They Carried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Master & Margarita Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Jungle: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sense and Sensibility (Centaur Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Women (Seasons Edition -- Winter) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grapes of Wrath Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe Complete Collection - 120+ Tales, Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Count of Monte-Cristo English and French Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for "Beautiful Thoughts"
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
"Beautiful Thoughts" - Henry Drummond
Henry Drummond
Beautiful Thoughts
EAN 8596547366058
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
Cover
Titlepage
Text
"
The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.—Rom. i. 20.
To My Dear Friend
Helen M. Archibald
This Book
Is Affectionately Inscribed.
Preface.
Table of Contents
My first thought of writing out this little book of brief selections sprang from the desire to assist a dear friend to enjoy the Author's helpful books.
The epigrammatic style lends itself to quotation. Taste of the spring brings the traveller back to the same fountain on a day of greater leisure. Many times these Beautiful Thoughts
have enlightened my darkness, and I send them forth with a hope and prayer that they may find echo in other hearts. E. C.
January 1st. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny
people, and the old are hungrier for love than for bread, and the Oil of
Joy is very cheap, and if you can help the poor on with a Garment of
Praise it will be better for them than blankets. The Programme of
Christianity, p. 33.
January 2d. No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of his age is slowly divorcing itself from it. Natural Law, Preface, p. 22
January 3d. A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a scientific faith. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28.
January 4th. Among the mysteries which compass the world beyond, none is greater than how there can be in store for man a work more wonderful, a life more God-like than this. The Programme of Christianity, p. 62.
January 5th. The Spiritual Life is the gift of the Living Spirit. The spiritual man is no mere development of the Natural man. He is a New Creation born from Above. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 65.
January 6th. Love is success, Love is happiness, Love is life. God is
Love. Therefore LOVE. The Greatest Thing in the World.
January 7th. Give me the Charity which delights not in exposing the weakness of others, but covereth all things.
The Greatest Thing in the World.
January 8th. There is a sense of solidity about a Law of Nature which belongs to nothing else in the world. Here, at last, amid all that is shifting, is one thing sure; one thing outside ourselves, unbiassed, unprejudiced, uninfluenced by like or dislike, by doubt or fear. . . . This more than anything else makes one eager to see the Reign of Law traced in the Spiritual Sphere. Natural Law, Preface, p. 23.
January 9th. With Nature as the symbol of all of harmony and beauty that is known to man, must we still talk of the supernatural, not as a convenient word, but as a different order of world, . . . where the Reign of Mystery supersedes the Reign of Law? Natural Law, Introduction, p. 6.
January 10th. The Reign of Law has gradually crept into every department of Nature, transforming knowledge everywhere into Science. The process goes on, and Nature slowly appears to us as one great unity, until the borders of the Spiritual World are reached. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 13.
January 11th. No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in
Religion. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 30.
January 12th. I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to raise
faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then, making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28. Quotation from Beck: Bib. Psychol.
January 13th. If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 31.
January 14th. With the demonstration of the naturalness of the supernatural, scepticism even may come to be regarded as unscientific. And those who have wrestled long for a few bare truths to ennoble life and rest their souls in thinking of the future will not be left in doubt. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
January 15th. The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.
January 16th. It is impossible to believe that the amazing successions of revelations in the domain of Nature, during the last few centuries, at which the world has all but grown tired wondering, are to yield nothing for the higher life. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
January 17th. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 18th. What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to Spiritual men? Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73.
January 19th. Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath not Life. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 74.
January 20th. It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world, there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 21st. The physical Laws may explain the inorganic world; the biological Laws may account for the development of the organic. But of the point where they meet, of that strange borderland between the dead and the living, Science is silent. It is as if God had placed everything in earth and heaven in the hands of Nature, but reserved a point at the genesis of Life for His direct appearing. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 69.
January 22d. Except a mineral be born from above
—from the Kingdom just ABOVE it—it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it. And except a man be born from above,
by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just above him. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 72.
January 23d. 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. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 24th. The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 25th What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 26th. The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not
Religiousness, but