"The grace of God, says Luther, "is like……" — Alexander MacLaren
"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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Alexander MacLaren
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62 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
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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…
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
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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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All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he…
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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of…
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
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Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a…
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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we…
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The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the…
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In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the…
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American…
— Adolf Hitler
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Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their…
— Walther Rathenau
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Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play…
— Paul Meyer
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic…
— Olivia Williams
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China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic…
— Karl Marx
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Ur pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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