Alexander MacLaren Quotes

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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 name through the darkness? Was…
• The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
• You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
• All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what…
• If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
• To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.
• Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
• The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had…
• Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
• Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
• We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our…
• The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that…
• In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us…
• Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
• 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…
• Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,…
• Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"
• He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
• "Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there…
• My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

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