The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds. Alexander MacLaren More Quotes by Alexander MacLaren More Quotes From Alexander MacLaren We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives. Alexander MacLaren shining heart may 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 inward shining heart Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God. Alexander MacLaren heart character men Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions. Alexander MacLaren vision defense earth The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection. Alexander MacLaren rejection leaving soul The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. Alexander MacLaren consecration fidelity roots 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 father lying children 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 vines support heart As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard. Alexander MacLaren voice flower heart Love is the foundation of all obedience. Alexander MacLaren foundation obedience love-is 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 events age jesus 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 prayer mother jesus Don't waste your sorrows Alexander MacLaren waste sorrow Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer. Alexander MacLaren turns prayer Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character. Alexander MacLaren religious character knowledge 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 blessed father children Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it. Alexander MacLaren reason doe men 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 soul spring love-is The grave has a door on its inner side. Alexander MacLaren graves sides doors 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 taken brother christian
