Randy Alcorn Quotes

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."

Randy Alcorn

• Jesus
• Treasures
• Store up

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• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Me
  • Project

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science

• And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Fate

• God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • May

• Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude descending the stairs' is the result of the desire for motion. Here he has also eliminated representative form. This avoids the connotation of ideas which would interfere with the success of the main issue - the sense of movement.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Success
  • Desire

• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Good
  • Community
  • Trust

• As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Question

• I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Comedy

• Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Home
  • Lost
  • Integrity

• Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Jesus
  • Spiritual
  • Story

• I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Worry

• One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • The Beatles
  • Humiliate

• If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• 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."

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Jesus
  • Treasures
  • Store up