Alexander Maclaren: Quotes about love

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , Death , Peace , Birth

“Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.

Love , Life , Heart , Christ

“I will guide thee with mine eye " — a glance, not a blow — a look of directing love that at once heartens to duty, and tells duty. We must be very near Him to catch that look, and very much in sympathy with Him to understand it; but when we do, we must be swift to obey.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 263.

Love , Understanding

“All true love to God is preceded in the heart by these two things — a sense of sin, and an assurance of pardon. There is no love possible — real, deep, genuine, worthy of being called love of God — which does not start with the belief of my own transgression, and with the thankful reception of forgiveness in Christ.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.

Love , God , Forgiveness , Sense

“Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me."”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 526.

Love , Feeling , Understanding

“The sum of the whole matter is this — He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting-point and foundation.”

Alexander Maclaren

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

Love , God , Heart , Christ