Alexander MacLaren Quotes

We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

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.

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.

A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

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.

In 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.

The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.