The Greatest Thing in the World, Henry Drummond
The Greatest Thing in the World, Henry Drummond
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The Greatest Thing in the World

Author: Henry Drummond

Narrator: Henry Drummond

Unabridged: 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/01/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help


Synopsis

A Scottish evangelist in the late 19th century, Drummond is best remembered for this 1880 meditation on the empowering message of Corinthians, as timeless as it is life-affirming.

About Henry Drummond

Henry Drummond (1851–1897), Scottish theologian and biologist was born at Stirling. He studied at Edinburgh, and in 1884 he became professor of Natural Science at the Free Church College in Glasgow. He traveled in the Rocky Mountains, Central Africa, Japan, Australia, etc. Works include Natural Law in the Spiritual World, The Ascent of Man, and Tropical Africa.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on July 17, 2009

LOVE Patience - Love Passive Kindness - Love Active Humility - Love Hiding Generosity - Love Competing Courtesy - Love Polite Unselfishness - Love Giving Good Temper - Love Behaving Guilelessness - Love Believing Sincerity - Love Honest The above is my concise, paraphrased version of this book. These nine comp......more

Goodreads review by J.A. on February 22, 2017

Like George MacDonald, Henry Drummond was a 19th century Scotsman who wrote books with a Christian theme. I read MacDonald because he was admired by an author whom I admire, C.S. Lewis. I read this book by Drummond because it impressed another man I admire, John D. Clemens, my grandfather. A few yea......more

Goodreads review by Ashlee on July 19, 2014

The test of a man then is not, "How have I believed?" but "How have I loved?" For the withholding of love is the negation of the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain. It means that He suggested nothing in all our thoughts, that He inspired nothing in all o......more

Goodreads review by Garth on October 12, 2007

This book is all about LOVE! More than just the our westernized understanding of love however! You will actually understand that love is made up of four different things. Unfortunately in our english language we one have one name for love that is suppose to encompass the complexity of what love is.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 19, 2012

The classic analysis of First Corinthians, chapter 13. Drummond has produced a treatise on love so wise, so full, so spiritual that it makes me want to elevate and broaden my concept of love and practice the unselfed, generous, broad, spiritual love full of grace that Drummond challenges us to expre......more