Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
christian love-is giving
The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.
easter believe world
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.
worship acceptable
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
trouble absence presence-of-god
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
winning world hammers
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
records facts truth-is
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
faith doe christ
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
heaven holiness christ
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
religious knowledge character
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.
experience tribulation parentheses
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
taken messages deliverance
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.
doe needs dread
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
jesus father long
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.
grief dark night
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."