Alexander MacLaren Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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

• 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.

• Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heaven, Holiness, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 228), 1895.

• 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”

• 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

• The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Father, Long

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.308

• If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Knowing, Done

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.30

• Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

• 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.

• 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)”

• Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Two, Sin

  Alexander Maclaren (1869). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.128

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

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Shining, May

  Matthew Henry, George Whitefield, Alexander MacLaren (2001). “Classic Sermon Outlines”, p.237, Hendrickson Publishers

• There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Meat, Deeds

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

• Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Brother, Taken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.

• It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Teacher, Kings, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 78), 1895.

• If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Christ, Knows

  Alexander Maclaren (1906). “Expositions of Holy Scripture”, p.204, CCEL

• The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Heart, Mean

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.218

• Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Spring, Love Is, Soul

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

• If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Father, Blessed

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.83

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

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christ, Distrust, Diffidence

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.57

• The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Age, Events

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.185

• Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sweet, Blessing, Remembrance

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

• That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Support, Vines

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

• He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ocean, Dark, Anxious Thoughts

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

• Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Perfect, Temptation

  Joseph Exell, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Alexander Maclaren, D.L. Moody (2013). “The Biblical Illustrator - Vol. 45 - Pastoral Commentary on Romans”, p.1781, Primedia E-launch LLC

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