“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

— Henry Drummond

Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

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Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer 1851–1897

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