A religion which did not flatter the rich, the great, and the learned - a religion which offered no license to the carnal inclinations of man's heart - a religion whose first teachers were poor fishermen, without wealth, rank, or power - a religion could never have turned the world upside down, if it had not been of God.
I declare I know of no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
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.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Preface, p. 22
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.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28.
No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in Religion.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Introduction, p. 30.
If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Introduction, p. 31.
The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.
The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not Religiousness, but Love.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Greatest Thing in the World.
Religion in having mystery is in analogy with all around it. Where there is exceptional mystery in the Spiritual World it will generally be found that there is a corresponding mystery in the natural world.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 91.
Religion is not a strange or added thing; but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: The Greatest Thing in the World.
Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by supernatural law, for all law is Divine.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 46.
Has your religion cost you anything? If it has cost you nothing, it is worth nothing.