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> [Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/trust-yourselves-my-brethren-to-the-immortal-love-and-perfect-work-of/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/all-things-and-all-acts-and-this-whole-wonderful-universe-proclaim-to/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

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> [Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/brethren-understand-that-the-gospel-is-a-gospel-which-brings-a/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

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## Other authors on Brethren

## More by Alexander MacLaren

> [If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/if-our-faith-in-god-is-not-the-veriest-sham-it-demands-and-will/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/god-keeps-giving-himself-as-long-as-we-bring-that-into-which-he-can/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/as-we-look-upon-that-agony-and-those-tearful-prayers-let-us-not-only/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/ah-my-brother-it-is-a-far-harder-thing-and-it-is-afar-higher-proof-of/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/the-cross-is-the-centre-of-the-world-s-history-the-incarnation-of/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [The grave has a door on its inner side.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/the-grave-has-a-door-on-its-inner-side/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/being-in-christ-it-is-safe-to-forget-the-past-it-is-possible-to-be/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/do-not-let-the-loud-utterances-of-your-own-wills-anticipate-nor-drown/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/man-s-course-begins-in-a-garden-but-it-ends-in-a-city/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/the-cup-which-my-saviour-giveth-me-can-it-be-anything-but-a-cup-of/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/love-is-the-only-fire-that-is-hot-enough-to-melt-the-iron-obstinacy/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/if-you-want-to-live-in-this-world-doing-the-duty-of-life-knowing-the/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Faith is the sight of the inward eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/faith-is-the-sight-of-the-inward-eye/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/every-sin-is-a-mistake-as-well-as-a-wrong-and-the-epitaph-for-the/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

> [True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/true-peace-comes-not-from-the-absence-of-trouble-but-from-the/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

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