151 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren

John does not say 'the sins'... But he says, 'the sin of the world,' as if the whole mass of human transgression was bound together, in one black and awful bundle, and laid upon the unshrinking shoulders of this better Atlas who can bear it all, and bear it all away. Your sin, and mine, and every man's, they were all laid upon Jesus Christ.

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will

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

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

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

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

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