Alexander Maclaren Short Quotes

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Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond toil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

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The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.

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The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

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Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

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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.

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

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

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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

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

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Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God.

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Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.

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It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like.

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He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

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Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

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

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

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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.

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'The Church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers', and the story of the first collision is, in essentials, the story of all.

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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.

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