Spirituality Quotes by Alexander MacLaren

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As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended…

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A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst…

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Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

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Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of…

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Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites…

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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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If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps…

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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 that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure…

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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 very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm…

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