Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
understanding god-love trouble
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
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.
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.
sky light might
Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?
giving doubt shadow
You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.
christian brother taken
Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.
strong shoes path
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
way energy infinite
It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.
prayer waiting thankfulness
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
jesus meat deeds
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.
christian christian-inspirational lord
Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"
trouble absence presence-of-god
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
men firsts god-love
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.
jesus people world
The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.