Joy Quotes by Alexander MacLaren

8 Joy quotes by Alexander MacLaren

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MacLaren’s thoughts often blend faith with everyday life. These eight snippets provide concise encouragement to seek joy through gratitude.

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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

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And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of…

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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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If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy…

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Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses,…

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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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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without…

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As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must…

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God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

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As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us…

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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 into the…

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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 round which…

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The grave has a door on its inner side.

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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 to be…

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Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till…

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

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The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

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Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.

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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, and yet…

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Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

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True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in…

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