Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
law world energy
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.
winning world hammers
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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.
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.
lord shall whom
Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''
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.
heaven holiness christ
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
faith doe christ
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
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.
children father cry
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'
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.