Randy Alcorn Quotes

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.

He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity

It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your generosity.

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him.

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

Real gold fears no fire.

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.