Alexander MacLaren Quotes About Jesus Christ

• 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.

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• The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.

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  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles General of I and II Peter and I John”

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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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  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

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  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

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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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  Alexander Maclaren (1869). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.128

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• 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.

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  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

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