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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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Truth , Heart

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

God , World , Law , Feeling

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

Alexander Maclaren

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

Wedding , Christ

“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!”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Life , People , Smile

“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."”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , God , Tear , Suffering

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

Alexander Maclaren

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

Faith , Christ

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Faith , Quotes , Christ

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

Alexander Maclaren

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

Suffering , Christ , Perfection

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

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , God , Learning

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Life , Religion , Soul

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

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Knowledge

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

God

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Life , Men , Truth , Way

“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."”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Life , Christ

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

God , Soul , Rage , Christ

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

Alexander Maclaren

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

Faith , Confidence , Christ

“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."”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Christ

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Faith , Motivation , Selfishness

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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