Top 100 Alistair Begg Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.
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#4. Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth.
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#5. Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.
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#6. 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.
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#7. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.
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#8. Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.
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#9. It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips
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#10. I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing
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#11. It is in the context ... of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit.
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#12. Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.
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#13. 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
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#14. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
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#15. As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.
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#16. The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.
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#17. We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
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#18. Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.
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#19. Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
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#20. There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.
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#21. Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.
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#22. Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.
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#23. A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this
not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.
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#24. Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.
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#25. We must be willing to say what the Bible says.
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#26. 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.
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#27. The pathway to lasting honor is to honor Christ.
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#28. 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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#29. Living at peace with everyone ... is not an option, it's an obligation.
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#30. God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.
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#31. Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love ...
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.
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#35. It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.
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#36. If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.
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#37. 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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#38. How do I know that I am in Christ? Because of my trusting, costly obedience to the Word.
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#40. The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God ... provides through Him.
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#41. We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.
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#42. Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.
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#43. Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
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#44. I never met a hopeful Christian who didn't read their Bible.
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#45. This is no time for wimpy Christians. It's time for soldiers of Christ to arise!
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#46. When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
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#47. 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.
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#48. What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
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#49. Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.
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#50. Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.
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#51. The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally.
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#52. It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation ... either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
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#53. 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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#54. The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.
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#57. You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.
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#58. The callings of God never leave you where they find you.
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#59. We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.
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#60. People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.
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#61. Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.
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#62. There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.
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#63. It is in getting to know my Bible that I get to know Jesus.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.
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#67. 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.
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#68. To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.
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#69. We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.
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#70. Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
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#71. If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ's enabling you stand back up.
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#72. When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
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#73. Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God's grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
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#74. As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin's penalty. One day we will be saved from sin's presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin's power.
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#75. Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.
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#76. We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.
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#77. Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
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#78. May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.
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#79. It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.
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#80. There is a kind of life that leads to death. There is a kind of death that leads to life.
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#81. The return of Jesus will be personal, physical, visible and glorious.
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#82. Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
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#83. The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
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#84. What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.
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#85. Marriage, we learn, is supposed to be a model of Christ's love for the church. It is to be based not upon lust, but upon honor and holiness (Ephesians 5).
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#86. If our Christianity doesn't work at home, it doesn't work.
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#87. It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.
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#88. 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.
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#89. It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.
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#90. We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.
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#91. Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.
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#92. The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.
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#93. Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?
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#94. Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.
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#95. I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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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#98. It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.
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#99. When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.
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#100. 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.
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