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Alexander MacLaren – Reformation

Alexander MacLaren – Reformation

“When the bonds which knit society to God are relaxed, selfishness soon becomes furious, and forcibly seizes what it lusts after, regardless of others’ rights. Sin saps the very foundations of social life, and makes men into tigers, more destructive to each other than wild beasts. All our grand modern schemes for the reformation of society will fail unless they begin with the reformation of the individual. To walk with God is the true way to make men gentle and pitying.”
– Alexander MacLaren

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  • pcviii03 says:

    Man’s extremes are left unchecked when his heart departs from the Lord.

    “…The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
    I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings…”
    Jeremiah 17:9-19

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