Alexander MacLaren Quotes
Top 50 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself
are identical.
are identical.
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.
To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
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.
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.