Alexander Maclaren: Quotes about Christ

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“"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

“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

“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

“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

“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