Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
Alexander MacLarenThe true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Alexander MacLarenUnbelief 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.
Alexander MacLarenThe 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.
Alexander MacLaren