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“A man may call himself a Christian—but the measure of his Christianity is the occupation of his mind and heart with the truth as it is in Jesus.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 376.

“The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 259.

“Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 608.

“If we truly feel that the Lord liveth, before whom we stand, we shall want nothing else for our work but His smile; and we shall feel that the light of His face is all we need. That thought should deaden our love for outward things. How the things that we fever our souls by pursuing, and fret our hearts when we lose, will cease to attract! How small and vulgar the " prizes " of life, as people call them, will appear!”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 127.

“The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. " He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 58.

“There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond toil.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.

“As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 68.

“Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 68.

“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

“Love is the foundation of all obedience. Without it, morality degenerates into mere casuistry. Love is the foundation of all knowledge. Without it religion degenerates into a chattering about Moses and doctrines and theories; a thing that will neither kill nor make alive, that never gave life to a single soul or blessing to a single heart, and never put strength into any hand in the conflict and strife of daily life.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 400.

“It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 104.

“Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p. 365.

“Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 131.

“Brethren, it is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 78.

“There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me."”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 120.

“Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 109.

“The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself — are identical.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 225.

“Christ puts Himself at the head of the mystic march of the generations; and. like the mysterious aneel that Joshua saw in the plain by Jericho, makes the lofty claim, "Nay, but as the captain of the Lord's host am I come up."”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 80.

“Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 220.

“The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 368.

“Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 237.

“Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 85.

“If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'"”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 228.

“A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.

“And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 448.

“Dear brethren, make your choice. Fight you must. Are you going to win or be beaten? Make your choice of the image you must bear. Whose?”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 108.

“The disciples seem alone; but up yonder, in some hidden cleft of the hills, their Master looks down on all the weltering storm, and lifts His voice in prayer. Then when the need is sorest, and the hope least, He comes across the waves, making their surges His pavement, and using all opposition as the means of His approach; and His presence brings calmness; and immediately they are at the land.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 110.

“I come to Thee, O Christ. Faint and perishing, defenceless and needy, with many a sin and many a fear, to Thee I turn, for Thou hast died for me, and for me Thou dost live. Be Thou my shelter and strong tower. Give me to drink of living water. Let me rest in Thee while in this weary land; and let Thy sweet love, my Brother and my Lord, be mine all on earth and the heaven of my heaven.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.

“Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terrors the shining of one perhaps pale, quivering, distant, but divinely given hope, "My Saviour! My Saviour! He is righteous; He has died; He lives! I will stay no longer; I will cast myself upon Him!"”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 229.

“As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but lot that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly cohijuered than a sorrow which we avoid.”

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Alexander Maclaren

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 71.

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