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“Rest, that is to say, is not a thing that can be given, but a thing to be acquired.”
Meaning & context
Drummond treats inward rest as a condition developed through changed habits and spiritual orientation rather than something another person can simply hand over.
Source details
Pax Vobiscum, represented by Project Gutenberg #9373. The sentence appears in Drummond’s Christian practical-theology discussion of rest and peace; its religious causal framework is historical devotional argument rather than clinical psychology.
