Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties — Alexander MacLaren Blunders Copy Share Image
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' — Alexander MacLaren Abba Copy Share Image
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. — Alexander MacLaren Consecration Copy Share Image
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren Creatures Copy Share Image
It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes… — Alexander MacLaren Artist Copy Share Image
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He… — Alexander MacLaren Abiding Copy Share Image
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible… — Alexander MacLaren Belief Copy Share Image
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the… — Alexander MacLaren Anticipation Copy Share Image
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in… — Alexander MacLaren Doe Copy Share Image
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that… — Alexander MacLaren Doe Copy Share Image
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. — Alexander MacLaren Experience Copy Share Image
The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot… — Alexander MacLaren Age Copy Share Image
Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a… — Alexander MacLaren Climb Copy Share Image
So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that… — Alexander MacLaren Abandon Copy Share Image
The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse,… — Alexander MacLaren Characteristics Copy Share Image
Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be,… — Alexander MacLaren Brother Copy Share Image
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be… — Alexander MacLaren Decision Copy Share Image
The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who,… — Alexander MacLaren Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means… — Alexander MacLaren Conflict Copy Share Image
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Grief Copy Share Image
If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ."… — Alexander MacLaren Abba Copy Share Image
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it… — Alexander MacLaren Aspect Copy Share Image
It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one… — Alexander MacLaren Chairs Copy Share Image
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God. — Alexander MacLaren Absence Copy Share Image
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!" — Alexander MacLaren Epitaph Copy Share Image
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him. — Alexander MacLaren Firsts Copy Share Image
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren Affliction Copy Share Image
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs. — Alexander MacLaren Bible Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see… — Alexander MacLaren Death Copy Share Image
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil… — Alexander MacLaren Canvas Copy Share Image
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites… — Alexander MacLaren Currents Copy Share Image
In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit… — Alexander MacLaren Age Copy Share Image
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole… — Alexander MacLaren Believe Copy Share Image
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing… — Alexander MacLaren Activity Copy Share Image
