Alexander MacLaren

Don't waste your sorrows

— Alexander MacLaren

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

— Alexander MacLaren

The grave has a door on its inner side.

— Alexander MacLaren

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

— Alexander MacLaren

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.

— Alexander MacLaren

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

— Alexander MacLaren

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

— Alexander MacLaren

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

— Alexander MacLaren

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that…

— Alexander MacLaren

“Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see…

— Alexander MacLaren

Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He…

— Alexander MacLaren

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the…

— Alexander MacLaren

Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the…

— Alexander MacLaren

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible…

— Alexander MacLaren

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in…

— Alexander MacLaren

While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of…

— Alexander MacLaren

Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning…

— Alexander MacLaren

All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our…

— Alexander MacLaren

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a…

— Alexander MacLaren

Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign,…

— Alexander MacLaren

Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish…

— Alexander MacLaren

Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his…

— Alexander MacLaren

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means…

— 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

If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ."…

— Alexander MacLaren

Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find…

— 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

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

— Alexander MacLaren

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of…

— Alexander MacLaren

“No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us…

— 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

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

— 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