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
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. — Alexander MacLaren 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
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
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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 Copy Share Image
Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost.… — Alexander MacLaren 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
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
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be… — Alexander MacLaren Decision 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
The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse,… — Alexander MacLaren 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 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 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
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
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its… — Alexander MacLaren Christ 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 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 Copy Share Image
The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot… — Alexander MacLaren Age Copy Share Image
Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let… — Alexander MacLaren Bards 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 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 Copy Share Image
Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily,… — Alexander MacLaren Blessing 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
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
If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy… — Alexander MacLaren 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
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
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
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour… — Alexander MacLaren 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
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren 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
Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
