To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.
Alexander MacLarenTo pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.
Alexander MacLarenHe who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
Alexander MacLarenYou cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
Alexander MacLarenIn making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.
Alexander MacLaren