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Alexander Maclaren was an English non-conformist minister of Scottish origin.

✵ 11. February 1826 – 5. May 1910
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Alexander Maclaren Quotes

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.