Christianity Quote by Alexander MacLaren

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

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

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

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

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

The grave has a door on its inner side.

— Alexander MacLaren

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

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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

— Alexander MacLaren

The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

— Alexander MacLaren

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.

— Alexander MacLaren

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