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• It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Teacher, Kings, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 78), 1895.

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• The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

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  Christian, Love Is, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.199

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• A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.

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  Running, Men, Water

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

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  Heart, Support, Vines

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

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  Jesus, Simple, Christ

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

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  Men, Perfect, Temptation

  Joseph Exell, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Alexander Maclaren, D.L. Moody (2013). “The Biblical Illustrator - Vol. 45 - Pastoral Commentary on Romans”, p.1781, Primedia E-launch LLC

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• Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

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  Men, Doe, Reason

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.296

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• Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

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  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

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  Kindness, Sorrow, Doe

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

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  Men, Christ, Knows

  Alexander Maclaren (1906). “Expositions of Holy Scripture”, p.204, CCEL

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• To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

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  Joy, Way, Path

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• Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

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  Humility, Waiting, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Meat, Deeds

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

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• You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

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  Experience, Tribulation, Parentheses

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

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  Prayer, Turns

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.246

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• 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.

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  Vocabulary, May, Type

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.269

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• 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.

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  Law, Energy, Obscurity

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.183

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• The grave has a door on its inner side.

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  Doors, Sides, Graves

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.100

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• 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.

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  Vision, Earth, Defense

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 277), 1895.

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• Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.

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  Ice, Horizon, Able

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

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• Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.

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  Grief, Scripture, Cups

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Rejection, Leaving, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company.

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  Jesus, Real, Men

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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?

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  Children, Father, Blessed

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.83

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• The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction 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

  Jesus, Age, Events

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.185

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