Best Alexander MacLaren Quotes
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The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose…
All
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent…
Christ
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The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love…
Christ
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You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion…
All
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If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
God
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Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.
Creatures
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Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He…
Anticipate
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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy,…
Angel
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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…
Abandonment
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So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the…
Abandon
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Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over…
Climb
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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place…
Bard
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As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that…
Able
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The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more…
Belong
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We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
Christ
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God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of…
Artesian
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Faith is the sight of the inward eye.
Eye
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
Christ
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If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not…
Absorbed
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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 all…
Age
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In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided…
Any
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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
Buoyant
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Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my…
Always Remember
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A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree…
Beyond
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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…
Calmed
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