If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy… — Alexander MacLaren Child of god 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
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
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
It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. — Alexander MacLaren Circumstances 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
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
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' — Alexander MacLaren Abba 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
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
“No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us… — Alexander MacLaren Communion with god 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
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
Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a… — Alexander MacLaren Climbs Copy Share Image
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer. — Alexander MacLaren Confidence 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
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
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
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
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
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
True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and… — Alexander MacLaren Divine Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren All things Copy Share Image
