R. Alistair Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. It happens quietly. It happens inevitably. Don’t underestimate God’s power.

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

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.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

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

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.

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

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

Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.

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

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.

Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

The callings of God never leave you where they find you.

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

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

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

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.

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

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

We must be willing to say what the Bible says.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

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

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

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

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.

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

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

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