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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

Alexander MacLaren
Prayer, Waiting, Thankfulness

As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

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

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

Alexander MacLaren
Prayer, Turns
Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.246

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

Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.

Alexander MacLaren
Prayer, Toil, Abiding
Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.279

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