"Let the current of your being set towards……" — Alexander MacLaren
"Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul."
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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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I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with…
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I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
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My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner…
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What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.
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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third,…
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Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning…
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I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.'…
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I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the…
— Dave Reichert
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In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us…
— Frances Ridley Havergal
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Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days.…
— Richard Louv
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The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still…
— Eric Ludy
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but…
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