244 Quotes by Randy Alcorn

Reality’s such a pain sometimes, you know?

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.

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.

We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers.” – Burk Parsons.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.