Randy Alcorn Quotes
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God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
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Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.
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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
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..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.
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You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.
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A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.
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The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.
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Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.
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Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.
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Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.
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In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.
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If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.
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But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.
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How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?
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We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
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It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.
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Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.
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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."
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God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
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Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.
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Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
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How can we recognize if we're falling into materialism's trap? Christ's words were direct and profound: "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" . What we do with our possessions is a sure indicator of what's in our hearts. Jesus is saying, "Show me your checkbook, your credit card statement, and your receipts for cash expenditures, and I'll show you where your heart is." What we do with our money doesn't lie. It is a bold statement to God of what we truly value.
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There's been a false and negative distinction that's been made between joy and happiness. Unfortunately, the message we send to those both inside and outside the church is, "Seeking happiness is superficial and shallow. Go out and get it in the world, but you won't find happiness in God." But all people seek happiness, and because they do, we're basically telling them, "Stop seeking what God Himself wired you to seek." What we should be saying is, "Seek your happiness in the right place - in God Himself."