Top 150 Randy Alcorn Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.”

— Randy Alcorn

52. “It’s dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.”

— Randy Alcorn

53. “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.”

— Randy Alcorn

54. “Heaven isn’t an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.”

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55. “The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.”

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56. “Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?”

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57. “Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.”

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58. “Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.”

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59. “I’m not always happy, any more than I’m always holy. But by God’s grace, I’m happier in Christ now than I’ve ever been.”

— Randy Alcorn

60. “A steward manages assets for the owner’s benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It’s his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.”

— Randy Alcorn

61. “Are you winning the battle against materialism?”

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62. “Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.”

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63. “Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.”

— Randy Alcorn

64. “Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.”

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65. “Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.”

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66. “As you go through life, don’t let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of God’s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.”

— Randy Alcorn

67. “I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.”

— Randy Alcorn

68. “Parents who spoil their children out of ‘love’ should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse – no man-made laws anyway – this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.”

— Randy Alcorn

69. “Matthew Henry, the Puritan preacher and Bible commentator, made this statement after a thief stole his money: “Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.”

— Randy Alcorn

70. “A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.”

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71. “You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.”

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72. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” God’s thoughts are indeed higher than ours, but when he reduces his thoughts into words and reveals them in Scripture, he expects us to study them, meditate on them, and understand them – again, not exhaustively, but accurately.”

— Randy Alcorn

73. “The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.”

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74. “Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.”

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75. “If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.”

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76. “Tomorrow’s character is made out of today’s thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.”

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77. “Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.”

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78. “If your faith is based on lack of affliction, it’s on the brink of extinction and is only a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call away from collapse. Token faith will not survive suffering. Nor should it.”

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79. “Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?”

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80. “This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don’t suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.”

— Randy Alcorn

81. “Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception.”

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82. “Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.”

— Randy Alcorn

83. “Never forget Yesu is King. Never forget your home is in another world. Never forget your father will be waiting to see you again.”

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84. “You and I are characters in God’s Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.”

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85. “The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin.” – Oswald Chambers.”

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86. “Even a bad father can leave an inheritance. Only a good father can leave a heritage.”

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87. “Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.”

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88. “Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.”

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89. “When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, “This is a test.” Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his provision for me to help others live.”

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90. “When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him.”

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91. “Most of us find it very difficult to want “Heaven” at all – except in so far as “Heaven” means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our whole education tends to fix our minds on this world. Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us, we do not recognize it. C. S. Lewis.”

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92. “God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.”

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93. “I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.”

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94. “Do we seek happiness because we’re sinners or because we’re human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness?”

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95. “When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.”

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96. “Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.”

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97. “If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child’s finest teachers.”

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98. “What we should see in the real Beatitudes is not merely that the words of Jesus exalt good character instead of bad but that good character brings happiness and bad character brings misery.”

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99. “My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.”

— Randy Alcorn

100. “When we fail to acknowledge God as the Source of all good things, we fail to give Him the recognition and glory He deserves. We separate God from joy, which is like trying to separate heat from fire or wetness from rain.”

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