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
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
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in… — 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
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means… — 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
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him. — 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
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from… — 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
It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one… — 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
