Randy Alcorn Quotes
Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Selfishness is blind.
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Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.
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I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
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I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
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You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.
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Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehension of the nature of belief. We can't not believe; and we won't ever know everything. We know this much: knowledge remains an endless advance toward an end point that endlessly recedes.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
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Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.
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Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.
