If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness. — Alexander MacLaren 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
Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy...think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
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… — 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 to be… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren 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
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
