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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.

Alistair Begg

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Alistair Begg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 22
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Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.
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I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
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We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.
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The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.
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Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
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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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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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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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The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.
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You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.
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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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Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.
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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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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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The pathway to lasting honor is to honor Christ.
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