“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.

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British minister 1826–1910

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