We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins. — Alexander MacLaren Acceptable Copy Share Image
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. — Alexander MacLaren Circumstances Copy Share Image
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes. — Alexander MacLaren Ifs Copy Share Image
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. — Alexander MacLaren Cultivate Copy Share Image
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty. — Alexander MacLaren Duty Copy Share Image
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth. — Alexander MacLaren Christianity 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
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows… — Alexander MacLaren Attraction Copy Share Image
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its… — Alexander MacLaren Death Copy Share Image
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. — Alexander MacLaren Blessedness Copy Share Image
Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?" — Alexander MacLaren Afraid Copy Share Image
Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
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
Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost.… — Alexander MacLaren Able 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 All things 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
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted,… — Alexander MacLaren Accepted Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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… — Alexander MacLaren Afar Copy Share Image
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must… — Alexander MacLaren Command Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Desire Copy Share Image
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 Christ Copy Share Image
“The cross had touched his heart and will. That was all. It had changed his whole being. He is a living illustration… — Alexander MacLaren Gospel Copy Share Image
“The first plague-spot is the accumulation of wealth in few hands, and the selfish withdrawal of its possessors from the life of… — Alexander MacLaren Capitalism 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
“One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.” — Alexander MacLaren Majority Copy Share Image
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer. — Alexander MacLaren Confidence Copy Share Image
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds. — Alexander MacLaren Beach Copy Share Image
