“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer
“Man must first live before he can live abundantly.”
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 40
1950s
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