Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes. — Alexander MacLaren Ifs Copy Share Image
Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days… — Alexander MacLaren Birth Copy Share Image
And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of… — Alexander MacLaren Blessed 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 Christian Copy Share Image
A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above… — Alexander MacLaren Calm Copy Share Image
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. — Alexander MacLaren Ends Copy Share Image
As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended… — Alexander MacLaren Divine Copy Share Image
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst… — Alexander MacLaren Delight 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
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. — Alexander MacLaren Experience 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
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness. — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a… — Alexander MacLaren Affection Copy Share Image
Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign,… — Alexander MacLaren Calvary Copy Share Image
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have… — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that… — Alexander MacLaren Divine Copy Share Image
All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our… — Alexander MacLaren All things Copy Share Image
Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be… — Alexander MacLaren Care Copy Share Image
“The first plague-spot is the accumulation of wealth in few hands, and the selfish withdrawal of its possessors from the life of… — Alexander MacLaren Life Copy Share Image
The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children;… — Alexander MacLaren Beam Copy Share Image
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds. — Alexander MacLaren Beach Copy Share Image
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates… — Alexander MacLaren And love 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
