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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.
— Alexander MacLaren
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
— Alexander MacLaren
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.
— Alexander MacLaren
The grave has a door on its inner side.
— Alexander MacLaren
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"
— Alexander MacLaren
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
— Alexander MacLaren
Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.
— Alexander MacLaren
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
— Alexander MacLaren
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
— Alexander MacLaren
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
— Alexander MacLaren
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
— Alexander MacLaren
God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.
— Alexander MacLaren
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
— Alexander MacLaren
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
— Alexander MacLaren
Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
— Alexander MacLaren
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
— Alexander MacLaren
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
— Alexander MacLaren
Faith is the sight of the inward eye.
— Alexander MacLaren
We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
— Alexander MacLaren
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) — C.S. Lewis
(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) — C.S. Lewis
One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.
— Alexander MacLaren
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
— Alexander MacLaren
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
— Alexander MacLaren
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.
— Alexander MacLaren
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
— Alexander MacLaren
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
— Alexander MacLaren
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren
I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.
— Alexander MacLaren
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
— Alexander MacLaren
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
— Alexander MacLaren
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself
are identical. — Alexander MacLaren
are identical. — Alexander MacLaren
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
— Alexander MacLaren
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
— Alexander MacLaren
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
— Alexander MacLaren
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
— Alexander MacLaren
Don't waste your sorrows
— Alexander MacLaren
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will
— Alexander MacLaren
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.
— Alexander MacLaren