Oct
27
2009
“What makes a man a good cricketer? Practice. What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing else.”
Henry Drummond on the fruits of the Spirit:
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Now the business of our lives is to have these nine things fitted into our characters. That is the supreme work to which we need to address ourselves in this world, to learn Love. Is life not full of opportunities for learning Love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a play-ground; it is a schoolroom. Continue reading
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Oct
10
2009
The Eccentricity of Religion
by Henry Drummond
“They said, He is beside Himself,”—Mark 3:21
The most pathetic life in the history of the world is the life of the Lord Jesus.
Those who study it find out, every day, a fresh sorrow. Before He came it was already foretold that He would be acquainted with grief, but no imagination has ever conceived the darkness of the reality.
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