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Spiritual Insights from Pastor Alistair Begg

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Pastor Alistair Begg is the senior pastor at Parkside Church near Cleveland, Ohio. His wonderful radio ministry program, Truth For Life, is currently heard worldwide on over 1,900 radio stations. A gifted Bible teacher, Pastor Begg, has a unique ability of sharing life principles from the Word in an easy way to understand and apply to daily living. Below are some of his most insightful quotes that I hope will encourage you on your walk with the Lord.1

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

“Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life – it is about how to face the difficulties of life.”

“It’s all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it’s actually all about us.”

“You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.”

“I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I’m more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.”

“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.”

“What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God’s help is not partial but total.”

“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.”

“The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.”

“When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.”

“It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The Creator of the universe knows me.”

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

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

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

“God’s law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.”


1 All of his quotes are from the following website:

TOP 25 QUOTES BY ALISTAIR BEGG (of 138) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)