Top 40 Alan Redpath Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?”

— Alan Redpath

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2. “There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.”

— Alan Redpath

3. “Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.””

— Alan Redpath

4. “When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.”

— Alan Redpath

5. “When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.”

— Alan Redpath

6. “Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord.”

— Alan Redpath

7. “A throne is God’s purpose for you; a cross is God’s path for you; faith is God’s plan for you.”

— Alan Redpath

8. “The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.”

— Alan Redpath

9. “The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”

— Alan Redpath

10. “The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.”

— Alan Redpath

11. “The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.”

— Alan Redpath

12. “There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.”

— Alan Redpath

13. “We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people – you will be that inevitably – but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.”

— Alan Redpath

14. “The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.”

— Alan Redpath

15. “So often the providences of God seem to run completely counter to His promises, but only that He may test our faith, only that He may ultimately accomplish His purpose for our lives in a way that He could never do if the path were always smooth.”

— Alan Redpath

16. “God doesn’t want new methods; He wants new men.”

— Alan Redpath

17. “Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding – He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.”

— Alan Redpath

18. “God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.”

— Alan Redpath

19. “We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.”

— Alan Redpath

20. “I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.”

— Alan Redpath

21. “Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.”

— Alan Redpath

22. “Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.”

— Alan Redpath

23. “If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,” at that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.”

— Alan Redpath

24. “We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.”

— Alan Redpath

25. “No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.”

— Alan Redpath

26. “The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.”

— Alan Redpath

27. “No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.”

— Alan Redpath

28. “Let’s keep our chins up and our knees down – we’re on the victory side.”

— Alan Redpath

29. “The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.”

— Alan Redpath

30. “For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour’s feet.”

— Alan Redpath

31. “Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.”

— Alan Redpath

32. “There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.”

— Alan Redpath

33. “Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.”

— Alan Redpath

34. “Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love. He is the person or thing that if lost would leave us desolate.”

— Alan Redpath

35. “How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law, it is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.”

— Alan Redpath

36. “When you are living by faith through the darkness of circumstances, other people become aware of the radiance and sweetness of your life, and they are truly blessed. When you refuse to admit your failure, God cannot be revealed through you to others, and they may be lost for eternity. Oh, the sin of unbelief has desperate consequences, not only for yourself, but for others!”

— Alan Redpath

37. “We glory in our wonderful gospel of love and mercy for the unsaved, but we usually act as if we have no gospel for the saint who has been tripped up by the devil!”

— Alan Redpath

38. “What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.”

— Alan Redpath

39. “It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.”

— Alan Redpath

40. “Heaven’s justice and righteousness must be recognized and maintained. Apart from grace, you find yourself bankrupt and insolvent, desperately in debt and helpless to meet God’s judgment. Therefore, your only hope is to fly to the wounded side of the Lord, who in His life kept God’s law perfectly and in His death paid the price of your rebellion.”

— Alan Redpath

41. “Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.”

— Alan Redpath

42. “It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.”

— Alan Redpath

43. “It is only the love of God shed abroad by the Holy Spirit that can cause effective repentance and cleansing – not simply Christian work or service, but the shining sweetness and fragrance of the love of Jesus Christ. It is this which touches a life that is out of adjustment to the will of God.”

— Alan Redpath

44. “In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous – sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?”

— Alan Redpath

45. “God’s call to any man and the anointing of the Spirit for service are conditioned upon that man’s heart response.”

— Alan Redpath