Randy Alcorn Quotes

If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of the "deceitfulness of wealth" . The psalmist warns, "Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them" . The dangers of materialism are far-reaching. We should not think that we're immune to the value-changing nature of wealth.

Randy Alcorn

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Television
  • Radio

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Wealth
  • Tax

• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Simple
  • Church
  • Trump

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dark
  • Very
  • Southern

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Getting
  • Getting Older

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Know
  • Weird
  • Beauty

• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Security

• I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Children
  • Never
  • Place

• I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • American

• Bahrain is very dear to me.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Me
  • Very
  • Dear

• All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
  • Music
  • Rock

• As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Passion

• A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the audience is having; a show can be successful from the point of view of what is experienced by the cast and the company on a daily basis.

  

  David Binder
  • Experience
  • Daily

• As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Energy
  • Sea
  • Dwarves

• If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of the "deceitfulness of wealth" . The psalmist warns, "Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them" . The dangers of materialism are far-reaching. We should not think that we're immune to the value-changing nature of wealth.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Experience
  • Dangers
  • Materialism