Top 150 Randy Alcorn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

— Randy Alcorn

2. “You can’t take it with you – but you can send it on ahead.”

— Randy Alcorn

3. “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.”

— Randy Alcorn

4. “God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.”

— Randy Alcorn

5. “It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.”

— Randy Alcorn

6. “He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity.”

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7. “The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.”

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8. “Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.”

— Randy Alcorn

9. “Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture’s poisonous entitlement mentality.”

— Randy Alcorn

10. “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.”

— Randy Alcorn

11. “It’s always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.”

— Randy Alcorn

12. “Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.”

— Randy Alcorn

13. “God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him.”

— Randy Alcorn

14. “Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.”

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15. “Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God’s grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.”

— Randy Alcorn

16. “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.”

— Randy Alcorn

17. “The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

— Randy Alcorn

18. “Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.”

— Randy Alcorn

19. “When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.”

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20. “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

21. “Real gold fears no fire.”

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22. “Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!”

— Randy Alcorn

23. “Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” – C. S. Lewis.”

— Randy Alcorn

24. “Ironically, many people can’t afford to give precisely because they’re not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God’s blessing.”

— Randy Alcorn

25. “What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer – they are previews of the greater life to come.”

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26. “Christians are God’s delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God’s grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God’s funds.”

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27. “God doesn’t look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.”

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28. “Hell is not evil; it’s a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.”

— Randy Alcorn

29. “The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn’t deserve so we could have the heaven we don’t deserve.”

— Randy Alcorn

30. “Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural – they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise – a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.”

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31. “God is grooming us for leadership. He’s watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place.”

— Randy Alcorn

32. “Five minutes after we die, we’ll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.”

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33. “To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.”

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34. “Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.”

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35. “The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ’s return, both of which are imminent.”

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36. “How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God’s Word?”

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37. “We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I’d rather be a good one. Wouldn’t you?”

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39. “If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God’s long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good.”

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40. “The only proper foundation for optimism is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Any other foundation is sand, not rock. It will not bear the weight of our eternity.”

— Randy Alcorn

41. “Don’t forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.”

— Randy Alcorn

42. “Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.”

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43. “For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.”

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44. “What is good about Good Friday? Why isn’t it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.”

— Randy Alcorn

45. “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.”

— Randy Alcorn

46. “Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God’s grace.”

— Randy Alcorn

47. “What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.”

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48. “Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that’s unplugged.”

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49. “God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.”

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50. “Dr. Martin Luther King said, ‘If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.”

— Randy Alcorn