Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
blunders duties interpret letting mostly wishes
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties
mistake fool sin
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
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?
appear bears doth glory growing heaven sea shall wave
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.''
barren coasts fallen flying grace lies passed says summer
''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
barren coasts fallen flying grace lies passed says summer
'The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
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?"
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.
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.
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.