"We must have the glory sink into us……" — Alexander MacLaren
"We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives."
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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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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
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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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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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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that…
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our…
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Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and…
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is…
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by…
— Saint Augustine
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Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a…
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There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such…
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Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state…
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The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms,…
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