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
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God . — 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
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
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
Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven… — 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
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
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — 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
