Top 120 Alistair Begg Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.”

— Alistair Begg

52. “God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.”

— Alistair Begg

53. “We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.”

— Alistair Begg

54. “At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart’s love upon people like us.”

— Alistair Begg

55. “How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.”

— Alistair Begg

56. “Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.”

— Alistair Begg

57. “Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.”

— Alistair Begg

58. “Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges – it’s a result of obedience to the Truth.”

— Alistair Begg

59. “Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.”

— Alistair Begg

60. “The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn’t call for inactivity, it calls for activity.”

— Alistair Begg

61. “Unfortunately, preachers who distort God’s Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren’t changed by compromise.”

— Alistair Begg

62. “A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.”

— Alistair Begg

63. “The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.”

— Alistair Begg

64. “The preacher’s task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.”

— Alistair Begg

65. “It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.”

— Alistair Begg

66. “We should not seek to confirm God’s will by the absence of adversity.”

— Alistair Begg

67. “When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.”

— Alistair Begg

68. “The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.”

— Alistair Begg

69. “The ultimate fulfillment of God’s mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.”

— Alistair Begg

70. “Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.”

— Alistair Begg

71. “May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.”

— Alistair Begg

72. “Even the most casual events are connected to God’s purpose for His people from all eternity.”

— Alistair Begg

73. “We’re to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.”

— Alistair Begg

74. “There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.”

— Alistair Begg

75. “The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.”

— Alistair Begg

76. “Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.”

— Alistair Begg

77. “If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.”

— Alistair Begg

78. “I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing.”

— Alistair Begg

79. “If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.”

— Alistair Begg

80. “Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.”

— Alistair Begg

81. “Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.”

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82. “The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.”

— Alistair Begg

83. “If the most important thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother sacrificially, then the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to respect their father.”

— Alistair Begg

84. “The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.”

— Alistair Begg

85. “You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.”

— Alistair Begg

86. “We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.”

— Alistair Begg

87. “Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.”

— Alistair Begg

88. “The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.”

— Alistair Begg

89. “The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.”

— Alistair Begg

90. “I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.”

— Alistair Begg

91. “If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.”

— Alistair Begg

92. “The callings of God never leave you where they find you.”

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93. “We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.”

— Alistair Begg

94. “Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.”

— Alistair Begg

95. “I never met a hopeful Christian who didn’t read their Bible.”

— Alistair Begg

96. “Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.”

— Alistair Begg

97. “We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today – even in the evangelical church – over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.”

— Alistair Begg

98. “The pathway to lasting honor is to honor Christ.”

— Alistair Begg

99. “If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.”

— Alistair Begg

100. “People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.”

— Alistair Begg