You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow… — Alexander MacLaren Casts Copy Share Image
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God . — Alexander MacLaren Abnegation Copy Share Image
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship… — Alexander MacLaren Friendship Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of… — Alexander MacLaren Abandonment 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
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart. — Alexander MacLaren Benediction Copy Share Image
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use,… — Alexander MacLaren Amount Copy Share Image
God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He… — Alexander MacLaren Giving Copy Share Image
He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned… — Alexander MacLaren Anxious Copy Share Image
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without… — Alexander MacLaren Angel Copy Share Image
While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of… — Alexander MacLaren Agents 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
Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning… — Alexander MacLaren Character Copy Share Image
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his… — Alexander MacLaren Driven 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
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish… — Alexander MacLaren Blind Copy Share Image
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from… — Alexander MacLaren Christian Copy Share Image
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I… — Alexander MacLaren Afraid Copy Share Image
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a… — Alexander MacLaren Bible Copy Share Image
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal… — Alexander MacLaren Bible Copy Share Image
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed… — Alexander MacLaren Barren Copy Share Image
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,… — Alexander MacLaren Apostolic Copy Share Image
Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption,… — Alexander MacLaren Brethren Copy Share Image
Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle… — Alexander MacLaren Anticipate Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Beautiful Copy Share Image
The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is… — Alexander MacLaren Christian Copy Share Image
Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses,… — Alexander MacLaren Brightness Copy Share Image
You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn… — Alexander MacLaren Christian 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
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren Bark 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
We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed… — Alexander MacLaren Asking 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
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 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
If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy… — Alexander MacLaren Adopted Copy Share Image
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all… — Alexander MacLaren Absence Copy Share Image
