Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. — 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
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 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… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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
As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended… — Alexander MacLaren 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 Copy Share Image
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through… — 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
