R. Alistair Quotes

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.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

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.

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.

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

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

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

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.

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.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

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

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.

This is no time for wimpy Christians. It's time for soldiers of Christ to arise!

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

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

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.

It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

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.

The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally.

All of us are better when we're loved.

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.

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.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

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

‎"The best of men are just men at best.

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

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

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

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

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.

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.

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

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

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.

Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.

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

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

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

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

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.

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

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

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.

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

The Creator of the universe knows me.