Breath taking expository commentary from Alexander Maclaren
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These selected sentences from Alexander Maclaren are each so breath taking that it is almost a shame to present them all together. Each should be read and then savored for at least a day.
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."
"Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ
requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of
it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for
all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient
for everything that I can require."
"Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will
provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any
journey for which He does not equip us well."
There is nothing more impotent than words which lie dormant in our
brains and have no influence on our lives.
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of
God in your daily life.
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.
"Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city."
"Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say,
'Of whom shall I be afraid?'
"Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy
of a creatures' will"
"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."
"Every life has dark tracts 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."
"If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it."
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with
some panic, or 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.
"Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule.
The grave has a door on its inner side."