Randy Alcorn Quotes

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Seek the Lord and give God the opportunity to provide through other means before you take out debt.

Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of seeing God provide when we've really stretched ourselves in giving.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.

Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted, ' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.

Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.