Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. — Alexander MacLaren 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 Copy Share Image
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I… — 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
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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
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
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily,… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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 Copy Share Image
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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
