Alexander MacLaren Quotes

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• Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Christian, Peace

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Strong, Shoes, Path

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Faith, Christian

  Alexander Maclaren (1869). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.57

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

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Heart, Hands

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• 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.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, People, World

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles General of I and II Peter and I John”

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• 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.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Taken, Messages, Ethics

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• The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Littles, Too Much, Needs

  Alexander Maclaren (1906). “Expositions of Holy Scripture”, p.323, CCEL

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• The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Waiting, Thankfulness

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• 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.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Understanding, God Love, Trouble

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Lord

  "MacLaren's Commentary - Expositions of Holy Scripture".

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• Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Voice, Hands

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Firsts, God Love

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.190

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• 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.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Jesus, Apostolic Church

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• As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Flower, Heart, Voice

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Records, Facts, Truth Is

  Alexander Maclaren (1901). “The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon”

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• Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mean, Men, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Way, Energy, Infinite

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 294), 1895.

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• If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Winning, Hammers, World

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.230

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• We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Shining, Inward

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: (to II Corinthians, Chapter V)”

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

  Alexander MacLaren

  Faith, Doe, Christ

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Dog, Heart

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• God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Long, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven;" and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Lying, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 17), 1895.

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• God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Christian, Spring

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• 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.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Giving, Doubt, Shadow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 599), 1895.

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