Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910) — Prediger · Baptistisch · England
Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910) war ein schottisch-englischer Baptistenpastor, der über vier Jahrzehnte an der Union Baptist Chapel in Manchester wirkte. Er wurde durch seine an den hebräischen und griechischen Grundtexten orientierte Predigtweise bekannt, die in der mehrbändigen Sammlung „Expositions of Holy Scripture“ dokumentiert ist. Heutigen Bibellesern bieten seine Schriften eine systematische und eng am Bibeltext orientierte Auslegung.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Witness & Mission, Service & Love of Neighbour, Growth & Character, Prayer & Silence, Hope & Confidence, Grace & Redemption
Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
Ah! If our likeness to God does not show itself in trifles, what is there left for it to show itself in? For our lives are all made up of trifles. The great things come three or four of them in the seventy years; the little ones every time the clock ticks.
Alexander MacLaren
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
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
Alexander MacLaren
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
Alexander MacLaren
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us over stony ground, He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us on any journey without equipping us well.
Alexander MacLaren
“I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,” said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward.
Alexander MacLaren
Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
Alexander MacLaren
Every life has dark tracks and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
Alexander MacLaren
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
Alexander MacLaren
The highest joy to the Christian almost always comes through suffering, No flower can bloom in Paradise which is not transplanted from Gethsemane. No one can taste of the fruit of the tree of life, that has not tasted of the fruits of the tree of Calvary. The crown is after the cross.
Alexander MacLaren
Offer men the smaller gifts, and they will run over one another in their scramble for them; but offer them the highest, and they will scarcely hold out a languid hand to take them.
Alexander MacLaren
The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself.
Alexander MacLaren
It takes a crucified man to preach a crucified Savior.
Alexander MacLaren
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
Alexander MacLaren
God alone can forgive sins, for the essence of forgiveness is not the outward remission of the offence, but the unrestrained flow of love from the heart of the One against whom the sin was committed.
Alexander MacLaren
Faith, which is trust, and fear are opposite poles. If a man has the one, he can scarcely have the other in vigorous operation. He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
Alexander MacLaren
In Christ, as a great storehouse, lie all the riches of spiritual wisdom, the massive ingots of solid gold which when coined into creeds and doctrines are the wealth of the Church. All which we can know concerning God and man, concerning sin and righteousness and duty, concerning another life, is in Him Who is the home and deep mine where truth is stored… The central fact of the universe and the perfect encyclopedia of all moral and spiritual truth is in Christ, the Incarnate Word, the Lamb slain, the ascended King.
Alexander MacLaren
No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us and done, that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of blessing, and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility, and hindering our communion with God. If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink, go straight up to it, and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is to do it.
Alexander MacLaren
The temptation once yielded to gains power. The crack in the embankment which lets a drop or two ooze through is soon a hole which lets out a flood.
Alexander MacLaren
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the obstinate iron of a creature's will.
Alexander MacLaren
Forgiveness is a blessing higher still than the casting out of demons, for in it the manifestation of power and love rises steadily to its summit.
Alexander MacLaren
Faith is not sustained by a doctrine, but by the heart.
Alexander MacLaren
The gospel is not a speculation, but a fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a Person who is the Truth.
Alexander MacLaren
Formalists, whose religion is basically a tangle of red tape tied around men’s limbs to keep them from the things they would reach, are as blind as bats to the radiant beauty of sublime goodness and as insensible as rocks to the miseries of sad humanity.
Alexander MacLaren
The greatest charity in the world is the communication of divine truth to the ignorant.
Alexander MacLaren
Brethren, if our trust is in God, it is unworthy of it and of us to fear, for all things are His, and there is no evil in evil as men call it, so long as it does not draw away our hearts from our Father and our Hope. Therefore, he that fears let him trust; he that trusts let him not be afraid. He that sets his heart and anchors his hopes of safety on any except God, let him be afraid, for he is in a very stern world, and if he is not fearful he is a fool.
Alexander MacLaren
I know what Eternity is, though I cannot define the word to satisfy a metaphysician. The little child taught by some grandmother Lois, in a cottage, knows what she means when she tells him “you will live forever,” though both scholar and teacher would be puzzled to put it into other words.
Alexander MacLaren
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Sources: evangelical-library.org.uk, projectmarion.ca, equipthecalled.com, logos.com
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