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Union To Christ: Quotations from Burning Words

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

Christ imparts to all believers all the spiritual blessings that He is filled with, and withholds none from any that have union with Him, be these blessings never so great, or they that receive them never so weak and contemptible in outward respects.— JOHN FLAVEL

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.— ROBERT MCCHEYNE

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.— HORACE BUSHNELL

In having all things, and not Thee, what have I? Not having Thee, what have my labors got? Let me enjoy but Thee, what farther crave I? And having Thee alone, what have I not?— FRANCIS QUARLES

Our communion with Christ is not on a level of our common humanity, but we rise in it; we scale the heavens where He sitteth at the right hand of God; we send our longings up and ask to have attachments knit to Him; to be set in deepest, holiest, and most practical affinity with Him; and so to live a life that is hid with Christ in God. In such a life, we become partakers of His holiness, and, in the separating grace of that, partakers also of His power. -— HORACE BUSHNELL

O! to abide ever in Christ- to know His fellowship, to keep our hearts resting upon His infinite love, and there to grow from spiritual infancy to the full stature in holiness and love and joy and peace. May this be your experience every day. and hour, strong in Him, fruitful in Him, happy in Him, until with the crumbling of the tabernacle of clay, the fellowship is perfect in the house not made with hands, where we shall see Him as He is.— A. E. KITTREDGE

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended with time; we, trusting Him, and yielding our hearts to Him, receive into our poor lives an incorruptible seed, and for us the soul-satisfying realities that abide forever mingle with and are reached through the shadows that pass away.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Jehovah is the Lord of the universe, and no responsible creature can feel itself in its right place except in cheerful loyalty to its Creator. And Jehovah is the Joy of the universe, and no intelligent being but must feel a great void in its affections, till once it love the Lord its God with all its strength and mind.— JAMES HAMILTON

Jesus, my life is Thine, And ever more shall be Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.— F. R. HAVERGAL