Randy Alcorn Quotes

I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.

Randy Alcorn

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• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Respect

• A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'

  

  Yves Klein
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Text

• I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Wish
  • Painting

• A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Sea
  • Integrity
  • Swimming

• But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

  

  Debi Thomas

• My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Job
  • Attention

• I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

  

  James Geary
  • Believe
  • Free

• An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Exercise extreme caution if you receive an unsolicited communication - meaning you didn't ask for it and don't know the sender - about an investment opportunity.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Exercise

• There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Power

• Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • She
  • Power
  • War

• 'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Life
  • Important
  • School

• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  

  Bruce Schneier

• An actor always goes to the safe side.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz

• I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Long
  • Struggle

• Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Music

• Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.

  

  John Heywood

• If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

  

  Sue Johanson
  • Know
  • Get

• We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Listening
  • Christ
  • Proclamation

• Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Novel

• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Christendom
  • Legalism
  • Religious Rules

• Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

  

  Farkas Bolyai
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Leisure

• I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Detest
  • Legalism