Beautiful Thoughts

Beautiful Thoughts

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Title: Beautiful Thoughts
Author: Henry Drummond
Release Date: October 8, 2004 [EBook #13677]
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"Beautiful Thoughts" From Henry Drummond
Arranged by Elizabeth Cureton
{Project Gutenberg Editorial note: Many quotes from "The Greatest
Thing in the World" did not provide a page number.}
1892
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.

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