Alexander MacLaren Quotes

My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, ‘Abba, Father?’

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.

Unbelief 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.

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.

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.

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

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

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

The grave has a door on its inner side.

The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.