Christ Quotes by Alexander MacLaren

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

— Alexander MacLaren

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

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Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

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We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

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Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing…

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Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

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If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from…

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Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the…

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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible…

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The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a…

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Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning…

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While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of…

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That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement…

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Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost.…

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The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus…

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He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned…

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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…

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There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,…

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The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He…

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Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven…

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The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot…

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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 name through…

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Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,…

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As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it…

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That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its…

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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

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Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be,…

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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have…

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If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily,…

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Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates…

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The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,…

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We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed…

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It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one…

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Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him…

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If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ."…

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It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days…

— Alexander MacLaren