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Henry Drummond Quotes: Sources, Meanings & Themes

Browse quotations by Henry Drummond with named works, context notes, meanings and recurring themes.

About the author

Context for this collection

1851–1897 · Scottish evangelist, lecturer and writer

Common themes

Love, humility, kindness, generosity, service, character and Christian ethical practice.

Sources

Works represented in this collection

The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses19th century · 1 quotation
Recurring themes
Friendship 1Kindness 1Love 1Short 1Trust 1Integrity 1Character 1Ego 1Generosity 1Humility 1Spiritual 1
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“Humility—to put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done.”
Henry Drummond · The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses · 19th century

Drummond defines humility as allowing good work to remain larger than the ego that performed it: kindness is followed by a refusal to turn the act into self-advertisement or private self-congratulation.

Source note: “The Greatest Thing in the World,” in The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses, Project Gutenberg #16739. Drummond explicitly places Humility among the “ingredients” of Christian love and glosses it as love that does not vaunt itself.