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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c3bba40 | In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 78a871b | 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" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c446c05 | 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 | Ruth Soukup | ||
| 0335c66 | 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? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 14dd9ee | In the Bible, Jesus says more than anyone else about Hell. He refers to it as a literal place and describes it in graphic terms. Jesus taught that in Hell the wicked suffer terribly, are fully conscious, retain their desires and memories and reasoning, long for relief, cannot be comforted, cannot leave their torment, and are bereft of hope. The Savior could not have painted a bleaker picture. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1b03d1a | Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." --D. A. Carson" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2c29bc3 | Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c477420 | God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c577ba1 | God the Father (who now pleads with mankind to accept the reconciliation that Christ's death secured for all) and God the Son (our appointed Judge, who wept over Jerusalem) will in a final judgment express wrath and administer justice against rebellious humans. God's holy righteousness will hereby be revealed; God will be doing the right thing, vindicating himself at last against all who have defied him. . . . (Read through Matt. 25; John 5.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e8b8ae6 | So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV) What does Scripture mean when it tells us to fix our eyes on what we can't even see? How do we begin to do that? Even though as Christians we affirm the reality of the spiritual realm, sometimes we succumb to naturalistic assumptions that what we see is real and what we don't see isn't. Many people conclude th.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ed4d997 | There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions. | materialism money possessions | Randy Alcorn | |
| 76230e3 | Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 885a914 | When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 75b1809 | Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't. | men pornographers purity sex temptation women | Randy Alcorn | |
| cce55c1 | But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 947a36d | If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It's not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains closed. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e4c7e56 | When we offend everybody, we've declared truth without grace. When we offend nobody, we've watered down truth in the name of grace. John 1:14 tells us Jesus came full of grace AND truth. Let's not choose between them, but be characterized by both. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7ec2743 | What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3c05e6e | The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0fff444 | Old Zhou Jin began singing a hymn Quan had heard and reluctantly sung many times since childhood: "One day I'll die for the Lord." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8cfeb22 | God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition--and make them even better. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 57f88bb | Even if materialism brought happiness in this life (which it certainly does not), it would leave us woefully unprepared for the next. Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. It's a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God, the Source of all life and the Giver of all good gifts. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| afc506f | The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7b65cc1 | So look out a window. Take a walk. Talk with your friend. Use your God-given skills to paint or draw or build a shed or write a book. But imagine it - all of it - in its original condition. The happy dog with the wagging tail, not the snarling beast, beaten and starved. The flowers unwilted, the grass undying, the blue sky without pollution. People smiling and joyful, not angry, depressed, and empty. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 83b64d8 | How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| bbb61cd | An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 22ec406 | Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms that movement. . . . Redemption in Jesus Christ reaches just as far as the fall. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e278d37 | Christ's resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth's. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f8b0db1 | What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." --A. W. Tozer" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 89576a7 | I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back--but God has a bigger shovel." -- R. G. LeTourneau" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 13caeff | God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing." --C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| afb5fa1 | There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." --C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b0112e2 | The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell." --J. C. Ryle" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f8bae0b | God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 54ca229 | The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 4a8dffd | Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There's the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of those in childbirth. Both processes are painful, yet they are very different. The one is the pain of hopeless dread, the other the pain of hopeful anticipation. The Christian's pain is very real, but it's the pain of a mother anticipating the joy of holding her child. It | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f6e9a42 | It is no coincidence that the first two chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1-2) begin with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the last two chapters (Revelation 21-22) begin with the re-creation of the heavens and the earth. All | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c580ca9 | We're told that a time is coming when God will restore everything. This is an inclusive promise. It encompasses far more than God merely restoring disembodied people to fellowship in a spirit realm. (Because living in a spirit realm is not what humans were made for and once enjoyed, it would not qualify as "restoring.") It is God restoring mankind to what we once were, what he designed us to be--fully embodied, righteous beings. And restori.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ea82b23 | God has his hands on the earth. He will not let go--even when it requires that his hands be pierced by nails. Both his incarnation and those nails secured him to Earth and its eternal future. In a redemptive work far larger than most imagine, Christ bought | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 6a514ad | 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. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2566274 | God has his hands on the earth. He will not let go--even when it requires that his hands be pierced by nails. Both his incarnation and those nails secured him to Earth and its eternal future. In a redemptive work far larger than most imagine, Christ bought and paid for our future and the earth's. A | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7d5b277 | any faith that leaves us unprepared for suffering is a false faith that deserves to be abandoned. Genuine | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 72840be | We've been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d2e13c9 | 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 | Randy Alcorn |