I do not think we ourselves are aware how much our religious life is made up of phrases, how much of what we call Christian experience is only a dialect of the Churches, a mere religious phraseology with almost nothing behind it in what we really feel and know.

Henry Drummond, Addresses by Henry Drummond, p. 85

Probably most of the difficulties of trying to live the Christian life arise from attempting to half-live it.

Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World, p. 396