Alexander MacLaren Quotes
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.
love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will
He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding, " and can wait God’s time for the rest.
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.