Quotes by : Alexander MacLaren

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

No wise forward look can ignore the possibility of many sorrows and the certainty of some. Hope has ever....

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding,"....

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

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

love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will

Self-preservation is not a man’s first duty: flight is his last. Better and wiser and infinitely nobler....