Alexander MacLaren

The grave has a door on its inner side.

— Alexander MacLaren

Don't waste your sorrows

— Alexander MacLaren

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

— Alexander MacLaren

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

— Alexander MacLaren

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

— Alexander MacLaren

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

— Alexander MacLaren

Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

— Alexander MacLaren

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

— Alexander MacLaren

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

— Alexander MacLaren

It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes…

— Alexander MacLaren

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus…

— Alexander MacLaren

Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing…

— Alexander MacLaren

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its…

— Alexander MacLaren

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows…

— Alexander MacLaren

Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"

— Alexander MacLaren

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

— Alexander MacLaren

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

— Alexander MacLaren

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be…

— Alexander MacLaren

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse,…

— Alexander MacLaren

So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that…

— Alexander MacLaren

Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be,…

— Alexander MacLaren

Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a…

— Alexander MacLaren

The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot…

— Alexander MacLaren

There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,…

— Alexander MacLaren

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted,…

— Alexander MacLaren

Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven…

— Alexander MacLaren

“The first plague-spot is the accumulation of wealth in few hands, and the selfish withdrawal of its possessors from the life of…

— Alexander MacLaren

“The cross had touched his heart and will. That was all. It had changed his whole being. He is a living illustration…

— Alexander MacLaren

It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days…

— Alexander MacLaren

There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever…

— Alexander MacLaren

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must…

— Alexander MacLaren

It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one…

— Alexander MacLaren

As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it…

— Alexander MacLaren

“One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.”

— Alexander MacLaren

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

— Alexander MacLaren

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

— Alexander MacLaren