The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
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
We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives. — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy...think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters… — Alexander MacLaren Baths 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
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. — Alexander MacLaren Blessedness 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
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins. — Alexander MacLaren Acceptable 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
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
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted,… — Alexander MacLaren Accepted Copy Share Image
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through… — Alexander MacLaren Appeals Copy Share Image
Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They… — Alexander MacLaren Christian 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
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must… — Alexander MacLaren Command Copy Share Image
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. — Alexander MacLaren Daily life Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Desire Copy Share Image
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties — Alexander MacLaren Duty 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
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows… — Alexander MacLaren Attraction 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
Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. "… — Alexander MacLaren Conscience Copy Share Image
