No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him. — Alexander MacLaren 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
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God. — Alexander MacLaren Absence Copy Share Image
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren 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
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? — Alexander MacLaren Affliction Copy Share Image
Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?" — Alexander MacLaren 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
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its… — Alexander MacLaren Death 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
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
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth. — Alexander MacLaren Christianity 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
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our… — Alexander MacLaren 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 Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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 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
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
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
“The cross had touched his heart and will. That was all. It had changed his whole being. He is a living illustration… — Alexander MacLaren Gospel 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 root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. — Alexander MacLaren Consecration Copy Share Image
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties — Alexander MacLaren Blunders Copy Share Image
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it. — Alexander MacLaren Christ Copy Share Image
Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use,… — Alexander MacLaren 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
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
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
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
