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

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• Store up

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• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• 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

• For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Guy
  • Parents

• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Road

• 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

• For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

  

  George Barna
  • Jesus
  • Died
  • Auditoriums

• The very resource of Holy Spirit empowerment granted to Jesus for his life of obedience and faithfulness to the Father is now granted to Jesus’s disciples as they carry forward the message of Christ, living lives of obedience to Christ, all in the power of the Spirit.

  

  Bruce A. Ware
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Obedience

• The new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Painting

• All three of us can gauge what moods we are in – it’s mostly a happy mood, fortunately – and we really stick up for each other.

  

  Joanne Catherall The Human League
  • Stick
  • Each Other
  • Moods

• 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