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“Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.

Joy

“Let us imitate Him who sought the mountain-tops as His refreshment after toil, but never left duties undone or sufferers unrelieved in pain. Let us imitate Him who turned from the joys of contemplation to the joys of service without a murmur when His disciples broke in on His solitude with, "All men seek Thee; " but never suffered the outward work to blunt His desire for, nor to encroach on, the hour of still communion with His Father. Lord, teach us to work; Lord, teach us to pray.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.

Men , Pain , Mountain , Solitude

“True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid; "it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid."”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Wisdom , Fear , Peace , Faith

“Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 389.

“The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.

Age , World , History , Christ

“The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 493.

Love , Soul

“So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 239.

God , Faith

“Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne."”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 432.

“The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

“And I think, dear friends, if we carried with us more distinctly than we do that one simple thought that in all human joys, in all the apparently self-forgetting tenderness, of that Lord, who had a heart for every sorrow, and an ear for every complaint, and a hand open as day and full of melting charity for every need — that in every moment of that life in the boyhood, in the dawning manhood, in the maturity of His growing power — there was always present one black shadow, toward which He ever went straight with the consent of His will and the clearest eye, we should understand something more of how the life as well as the death was a sacrifice for us sinful men.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Life , Death , Men , Understanding

“Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 373.

Joy , Christ

“That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Faith , Support , Heart , Christ

“Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.

Fear , Confidence

“If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 240.

God , Faith , Help

“We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which makes gladness in the life here below, to transfer them to Him, and to rest safe in the Lord. Faith is trust.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 590.

Life , Faith , Exercises , Christ

“Many shall seek; do you strive. For wishing is one thing, and willing is another, and doing is yet another. And in regard to entrance into Christ's kingdom, our "doing" is trusting Him who has done all for us. " This is the work of God, that ye should believe on Him whom He hath sent." Does your wish lead to the acceptance of the condition? Then it will be fulfilled.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 619.

God , Christ

“We believe that to Christ belongs creative power — that "without Him was not any thing made which was made." We believe that from Him came all life at first. In Him life was as in its deep source. He is the fountain of life. We believe that as no being comes into existence without His creative power, so none continues to exist without His sustaining energy. We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence, and that the centre of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 56.

Life , World , History , Universe

“Why does a man refuse to believe? Because he has confidence in himself; because he has not a sense of his own sins; because he has not love in his heart to his Lord and Saviour. Unbelief men are responsible for. Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act — an act of the whole nature. Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, just because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, and all, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Men , Confidence , Understanding

“There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Life , God , Sense , Water

“As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended with time; we, trusting Him, and yielding our hearts to Him, receive into our poor lives an incorruptible seed, and for us the soul-satisfying realities that abide forever mingle with and are reached through the shadows that pass away.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 610.

Soul , Reality , Time , Heart