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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — Alexander Maclaren

1826–1910

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No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself — are identical.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond toil.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

A man may call himself a Christian—but the measure of his Christianity is the occupation of his mind and heart with the truth as it is in Jesus.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Maclaren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.