Alexander Maclaren: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 590.

Love , Death , Peace , Birth

“Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.

Love , Life , Heart , 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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 107.

Past , Future , Christ , Forgetting

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 599.

God

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.

God , Faith , Way , Christ

“Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.

Heart , Christ

“I will guide thee with mine eye " — a glance, not a blow — a look of directing love that at once heartens to duty, and tells duty. We must be very near Him to catch that look, and very much in sympathy with Him to understand it; but when we do, we must be swift to obey.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 263.

Love , Understanding

“All true love to God is preceded in the heart by these two things — a sense of sin, and an assurance of pardon. There is no love possible — real, deep, genuine, worthy of being called love of God — which does not start with the belief of my own transgression, and with the thankful reception of forgiveness in Christ.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.

Love , God , Forgiveness , Sense

“Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me."”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 526.

Love , Feeling , Understanding

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 104.

Love , God , Heart , Christ

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 108.

Light

“Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 235.

Faith , Future , Sea

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 17.

Life , God , Lie , Confidence

“Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 82.

Love , God , Mountain , Christ

“Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.”

Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 88.

Christ