Ah! If our likeness to God does not show itself in trifles, what is there left for it to show itself in? For our lives are all made up of trifles. The great things come three or four of them in the seventy years; the little ones every time the clock ticks.

Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910), Prediger

Topics: Growth & Character, Meaning & Identity

Occasions: For Reflection

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910) war ein schottisch-englischer Baptistenpastor, der über vier Jahrzehnte an der Union Baptist Chapel in Manchester wirkte. Er wurde durch seine an den hebräischen und griechischen Grundtexten orientierte Predigtweise bekannt, die in der mehrbändigen Sammlung „Expositions of Holy Scripture“ dokumentiert ist. Heutigen Bibellesern bieten seine Schriften eine systematische und eng am Bibeltext orientierte Auslegung.

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