It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes… — 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
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be,… — 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
Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning… — 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
The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our… — Alexander MacLaren 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 Copy Share Image
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all… — 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
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him… — 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
