Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
god kindness daily-life
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
demand faith-in-god helping
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good.
god vision divine
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
god christian spring
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.
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.
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.
blunders duties interpret letting mostly wishes
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties
spiritual men understanding
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.
dark light long
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
jesus two sin
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
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.
christian jesus sky
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
mean men light
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.