Why You'll Love This
A single sermon changed Paulo Coelho's life — and at 88 pages, it might quietly change yours too.
- Great if you want: a short, spiritually grounding read on what actually matters
- The experience: calm and meditative — best read slowly, more than once
- The writing: Drummond unpacks one biblical passage with quiet, methodical precision
- Skip if: you're put off by Christian scripture as a starting point
About This Book
What does it actually mean to love — not as sentiment, not as instinct, but as a daily, deliberate practice? Henry Drummond's landmark sermon, presented here alongside Paulo Coelho's personal reflection, takes one of the most quoted passages in human history — St. Paul's meditation on love from Corinthians — and strips away centuries of casual familiarity to reveal something startling and demanding underneath. The stakes couldn't be more personal: if love is the supreme gift, most of us are living with a fraction of it, and Drummond's quietly radical argument makes that impossible to ignore.
At just 88 pages, this is a book that earns its brevity. Drummond writes with the precision of a thinker who has turned a single idea over and over until it catches light, and Coelho's brief introduction frames the text not as history but as living instruction — something he describes as genuinely changing the way he moved through the world. The result is a rare collaboration across time: one writer discovering a text, another illuminating why it still matters. Spare, unhurried, and unexpectedly specific, it rewards slow reading far more than a quick pass.