Top 138 Quotes & Sayings by Alistair Begg - Page 2

The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.

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

There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior.

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

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

When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

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.

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

I listen to some of you guys out there, hyper-reformed boys, you're concerned if you preach the gospel to the wrong person, the wrong person might get saved. So you don't want to preach it too good, 'well wait a minute, I don't think you should've been getting saved, I'm not sure you're in the group.' What do you mean in the group! If you breath you're in the group! If you have ears to hear you're in the group! And if you choose not to respond it's your own fault, not God's.

It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.

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

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.

Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

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.

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.

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

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.

To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.

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

I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

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.

?"The best of men are just men at best.

I never met a hopeful Christian who didn't read their Bible.

It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips

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

Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.

The only true conqueror who shall be crowned in the end is he who continues until war's trumpet is blown no more.... Christian, wear your shield close to your armor and cry earnestly to God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.

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

I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

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

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

We must be willing to say what the Bible says.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom.

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

Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

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

Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.

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

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.

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

God's plan for moving people from the broad road to the narrow road involves you.

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

It is in the context...of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

The Creator of the universe knows me.

The Bible comes both to warn and to encourage and always to turn us again to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.

The return of Jesus will be personal, physical, visible and glorious.

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