Top 150 Randy Alcorn Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “It’s a law of life: the tyranny of things.”

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102. “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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103. “We can’t take material things with us when we die, but we do take our friendships to Heaven, and one day they’ll be renewed.”

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104. “We will look into God’s eyes and 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. Why? Because not only will we see God, he will be the lens through which we see everything else – other people, ourselves, and the events of our earthly lives.”

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105. “Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them.”

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106. “There’s a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.”

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107. “No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.”

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108. “Some of the best portrayals I’ve seen of the eternal Heaven are in children’s books. Why? Because they depict earthly scenes, with animals and people playing, and joyful activities. The books for adults, on the other hand, often try to be philosophical, profound, ethereal, and otherworldly. But that kind of Heaven is precisely what the Bible doesn’t portray as the place where we’ll live forever. John.”

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109. “To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn’t glorify people, we must hear each other’s stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.”

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110. “An obedient man is free when in prison,” Quan said. “A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.”

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111. “Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don’t know what’s inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.”

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112. “When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.”

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113. “If you are looking for a religion centered around yourself, Ben, I must agree that Christianity is a poor choice.”

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114. “In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis.”

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115. “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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116. “It would upset us, but would we think it unloving if a doctor told us we had a potentially fatal cancer? And would the doctor not tell us if the cancer could be eradicated? Why then do we not tell unsaved people about the cancer of sin and evil and how the inevitable penalty of eternal destruction can be avoided by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ?”

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117. “Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God’s hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands.”

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118. “Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”

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119. “The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign.”

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120. “It’s not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate – it’s what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.”

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121. “Because satan hates us, he’s determined to rob us of the joy we’d have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.”

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122. “We don’t pretend all is well. But knowing God’s commands to rejoice in him through his all-sufficient power, we meditate on his Word and call on him to impart his gladness to us. In time God exchanges our natural responses with his supernatural, joy-giving presence. Sometimes sorrow and joy do battle; sometimes they coexist, but when our hearts and minds are on Christ, joy is never far away:.”

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123. “If we realize we’re undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we’re surprised at God’s many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks.”

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124. “Shouldn’t we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?”

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125. “Reality’s such a pain sometimes, you know?”

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126. “When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.”

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127. “The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.”

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128. “And do you think your refusal to believe will convince God to change his nature? He is who he is no matter what you think of him. Despite what Americans believe, the universe is not a democracy. Truth is not determined by the majority. As for hell, if you were as just and holy as God is, you would understand that all men deserve hell. It is no puzzle that men should go to hell. What is a puzzle is that men should go to heaven.”

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129. “Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.”

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130. “We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.”

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131. “By trusting Christ’s redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.”

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132. “The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.”

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133. “A Greek philosopher said, ‘All men think it is only the other man who is mortal’. The way we scurry about accumulating things is testimony to our unspoken doctrine that we are exceptions to the law of death. The events of September 11, 2001, were a shocking reminder to millions of Americans of something we should have already understood – our mortality.”

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134. “Fiction is not the opposite of truth – indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.”

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135. “If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures – now that would have gotten his attention.”

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136. “My father, Li Tong, used to say, ‘Church leader who does not believe in God is like barefoot shoe salesman.’ We call our bureau leader the Caiaphas of China.” “What does that mean?” “You remember Caiaphas from the Bible?” “No.” “Did someone take your Bible from you?” “No. It’s on my shelf. Remember? I’ve got three of them.” “Perhaps Ben Fielding should give two away and then start reading the other one.”

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137. “Not the way it’s supposed to be.” Evil is exactly that – a fundamental and troubling departure from goodness. The Bible uses the word evil to describe anything that violates God’s moral will.”

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138. “This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It’s not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ’s generous sacrifice on our behalf.”

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139. “Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we’re storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?”

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140. “If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can’t we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?”

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141. “To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.”

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142. “Jesus came not only to save spirits from damnation. That would have been, at most, a partial victory. No, he came to save his whole creation from death. That means our bodies too, not just our spirits. It means the earth, not just humanity. And it means the universe, not just the earth. Christ’s.”

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143. “Tithing isn’t the ceiling of giving; it’s the floor. It’s not the finish line of giving; it’s the starting blocks. Tithes can launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.”

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144. “Five minutes after we die, we’ll know exactly how we should have lived. But God has given us His Word so that we don’t have to wait to die to find out. And He’s given us His Spirit to empower us to live that way now.”

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145. “God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.” – Sinclair Ferguson.”

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146. “God provides not only in what he gives us, but at times in what he keeps from us. Have you ever noticed that excess money just seems to dissipate in a multitude of directions?”

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147. “Heaven, then, is not our default destination. No one goes there automatically. Unless our sin problem is dealt with, the only place we can go is Hell, our true default destination when we die.”

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148. “In Ephesians, there’s a command given specifically to men: ‘Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.’” Adam grew more animated. “In my case, that was exactly the problem. Ever since Dylan became a teenager, I’ve sent him negative messages. He’s only heard me say no or tell him to get home sooner or do his homework or stop playing video games. I made him angry because I never encouraged him.”

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149. “A Barna poll shows that for every American who believes he or she is going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they’re going to Heaven.”

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150. “Emily peered at him and frowned, then began to dance on the grass. “Okay, Daddy,” Emily said. “When you’re ready to dance with me, this is what you do. First, you put your right hand around my waist like this, then hold your other hand out like this. Then we sway back and forth to the music.” Face animated, she gestured gracefully while talking, lost in the moment.”

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