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“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Life , Faith , Soul

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Soul , Heart , Christ

“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?'"”

Alexander Maclaren

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

God , Faith , Birth , Time

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

God , Soul , Water , Personality

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

God , Secret , Way , Past

“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?”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Fight

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Hope

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Fear , Drink , Strong

“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!"”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Fear , Faith , Justice , Hope

“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.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Tear , Heart

“Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.

God

“Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Men , God , Hell

“The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.

“It is easy to say "resist; " but the command is bitter irony, unless we go on to say with the New Testament, — "Whom resist steadfast in the faith." No man, my dear brother, can stand in the slippery places where we have to go, unless he have the grasp of a higher and stronger hand to keep him up.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 107.

Faith

“"Work out your own salvation." Work, as well as believe; and in the daily practice of faithful obedience, in the daily subjugation of your own spirits to His Divine power, in the daily crucifixion of your flesh with its affections and lusts, in the daily straining after loftier heights of godliness and purer atmospheres of devotion and love, — make more thoroughly your own what you possess. Work into the substance of your souls that which you hare. "Apprehend that for which you are apprehended of Christ;" and remember that not a past act of faith, but a present and continuous life of loving, faithful work in Christ, which is His and yet yours, is the holding fast the beginning of your confidence firm unto the end.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Life , Faith , Soul

“Ordinary human motives will appeal in vain to the ears which have heard the tones of the heavenly music; and all the pomp of life will show poor and tawdry to the sight that has gazed on the vision of the great white throne and the crystal sea.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Life , Music , Motivation , Sea

“If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 153.

Christ

“Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.

Life , God

“The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company."”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Men , God , Faith , Time

“Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Faith , Christ , Dependency