Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. — Alexander MacLaren Consecration Copy Share Image
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties — Alexander MacLaren Blunders Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren Affliction Copy Share Image
Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. "… — Alexander MacLaren Conscience Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see… — Alexander MacLaren Death Copy Share Image
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. — Alexander MacLaren Experience Copy Share Image
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible… — Alexander MacLaren Belief Copy Share Image
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst… — Alexander MacLaren Delight Copy Share Image
A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above… — Alexander MacLaren Calm Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost.… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They… — Alexander MacLaren Christian Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a… — Alexander MacLaren Bible Copy Share Image
Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign,… — Alexander MacLaren Calvary Copy Share Image
If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ."… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Grief Copy Share Image
“No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us… — Alexander MacLaren Communion with god Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Allies Copy Share Image
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs. — Alexander MacLaren Bible Copy Share Image
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!" — Alexander MacLaren Epitaph Copy Share Image
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God. — Alexander MacLaren Absence Copy Share Image
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God . — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil… — Alexander MacLaren Canvas Copy Share Image
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
