"In making our decisions, we must use the……" — Alexander MacLaren
"In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies."
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62 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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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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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we…
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