Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
love-is foundation obedience
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
death doors house
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
winning world hammers
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
christian heart hands
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
men perfect temptation
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
humility waiting soul
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
worship acceptable
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
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.
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.
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.