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• The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

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  Summer, Lying, Land

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles of John, Jude, and the Book of Revelation”

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• God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Giving, Sorrow, Doe

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.288

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• 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

  Heart, Character, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.76

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• "Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Grief, Dark

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.89

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Blessing, Remembrance

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

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• Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

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• Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mistake, Fool, Sin

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• Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

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  Beautiful, Self, Differences

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.34

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• The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Affliction, Cups, Salvation

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• 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, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Spiritual, Men, Understanding

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

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

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christ, Distrust, Diffidence

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.57

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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

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  Blessed, Past, Expectations

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

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• All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself.

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  Nature, Father, Joy

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.22

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• In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin

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  Running, Heart, Long

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

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• The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that is as the sun shining in its strength beams with as much love as when it drew publicans and harlots to His feet. The breast that is girt with the golden girdle is the same breast upon which John leaned his happy head.

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  Stars, Children, Blessing

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• There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

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  Past, Long, Giving

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

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• 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

  Spring, Love Is, Soul

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

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• Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

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  Men, Garden, Cities

  Alexander Maclaren (1902). “The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons”

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• Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

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  Jesus, Eye, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.304

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

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  Beach, Ocean, Sound

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

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• So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Hands, Safety, Preparation

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

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• 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

  Brother, Fall, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 85), 1895.

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• Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sunshine, Grieving, Ice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 82), 1895.

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• All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Lying, Giving, Use

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• My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Father, Cry

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 228), 1895.

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