Top 120 Alistair Begg Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.”

— Alistair Begg

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

— Alistair Begg

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

— Alistair Begg

54. “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

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

— Alistair Begg

56. “When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.”

— Alistair Begg

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “We mustn’t allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, “to prove us and to improve us.”

— Alistair Begg

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

— Alistair Begg

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

— Alistair Begg

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Alistair Begg

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

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67. “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

68. “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

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

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

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

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72. “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

73. “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

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

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

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

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77. “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.”

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

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

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80. “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.”

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81. “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

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

— Alistair Begg

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

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84. “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

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

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86. “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

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

— Alistair Begg

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

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89. “The fact that we have to discuss reality as though there were no reality is an indication of the confusion of our times.”

— Alistair Begg

90. “The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.”

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

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92. “How do I know that I am in Christ? Because of my trusting, costly obedience to the Word.”

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

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94. “It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.”

— Alistair Begg

95. “Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.”

— Alistair Begg

96. “I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, “Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God’s Law.”3.”

— Alistair Begg

97. “God’s plan for moving people from the broad road to the narrow road involves you.”

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98. “The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.”

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99. “Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.”

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100. “Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.”

— Alistair Begg