"If our faith in God is not the……" — Alexander MacLaren
"If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good."
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62 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren has 62 quotes on this site.
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
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All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he…
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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of…
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
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Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
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Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a…
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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we…
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The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the…
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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