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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f684f4e | God permits what he hates in order to accomplish what he loves." Heaven" | Larry J. Waters | ||
| 5c0b159 | Every item I add to my possessions is one more thing to think about, talk about, clean, repair, display, rearrange, and replace when it goes bad. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5f382c8 | Yes, Satan rebelled. Yes, Adam and Eve freely chose sin, and with it death and suffering. And yes, the all-powerful, happy God could have intervened to prevent those choices. If that intervention would have brought him more glory and us more good, no doubt he would have done it. But God, in his wisdom, determined that not even rebellion and sin could thwart his plan to further his happiness and that of his people. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| daf81fb | Now, in comparison to both Matthew 17 and Revelation 1, it appears that the risen Christ, before his ascension, was not yet fully glorified. If he would have been glorified, surely his identity would have been immediately apparent to Mary Magdalene (John 20:14), the disciples on the Emmaus road (Luke 24:15-16), and Peter and the apostles when they saw him on the shore (John 21:4). Consider | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 53fd5d2 | When you pretend you don't feel hurt or angry or devastated, you're not fooling God. Be honest! Don't misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point. | confess confession god honest honesty hurt pain prayer | Randy Alcorn | |
| 9b929c3 | Christ is and will forever remain both God (from Heaven) and man (of earth). I | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ded6ca8 | Inside your body, even if it is failing, is the blueprint for your resurrection body. You may not be satisfied with your current body or mind--but you'll be thrilled with your resurrection upgrades. With them you'll be better able to serve and glorify God and enjoy an eternity of wonders he has prepared for you. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c54e72e | The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0e516a9 | If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| af1e079 | God subjected the whole creation to frustration by putting the Curse not only on mankind but also on the earth (Genesis 3:17). Why? Because human beings and the earth are inseparably linked. And as together we fell, together we shall rise. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 77c5722 | And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28, ESV)." -- | Randy Alcorn | ||
| fc4f30f | Randy Alcorn reminds us of "the Jerusalem converts who eagerly sold their possessions to give to the needy (Acts 2:45; 4:32-35)." | Mark Driscoll | ||
| e9eca88 | Forgiveness is not automatic. It's conditioned upon confession: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). Christ offers to everyone the gift of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life: "Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life" (Revelation 22:17)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c0a5233 | Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted--not given-- to me. 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. | Mark Driscoll | ||
| c458173 | We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." --Burk Parsons "The" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| bc31e7e | She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her. | jesus-christ | Randy Alcorn | |
| 31220b4 | Though the rest of the earth fell under human sin, Eden was for some reason treated differently. Perhaps it had come from Heaven, God's dwelling place, and was transplanted to Earth. We don't know. But we do know this: God came to Eden to visit with Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:8), which he would no longer do after Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden after the Fall. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 02a4a7f | Many come short, being satisfied with the works of God rather than hungering for and reaching on to God Himself." --A. W. Tozer" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d7419b2 | How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 500ca08 | Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 4ca22b2 | We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you? | character-of-god nature-of-god sovereignty-of-god theology | Randy Alcorn | |
| edd5dc7 | If a thousand things that made sense to me had turned out wrong, perhaps this thing that didn't make sense would turn out right. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7a26635 | Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money. RICHARD HALVERSON | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8602145 | Tolstoy said, "The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience." Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, go hungry, are abused and exploited, or go to Hell." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ea0241a | 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? Much | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e78818e | we inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness--we long for something better. Were we merely the product of natural selection and survival of the fittest, we'd have no grounds for believing any ancient happiness existed. But we are all nostalgic for an Eden we've only seen fleeting hints of. Unfortunately, | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 743ec86 | Happiness-seeking is built into every person, of every age and circumstance. I believe we inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness--we long for something better. Were we merely the product of natural selection and survival of the fittest, we'd have no grounds for believing any ancient happiness existed. But we are all nostalgi.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7aeb1b5 | The Bible indicates that God will not permit anything to happen that he can't use to bring ultimate good to his people and to glorify himself. That's his promise. Therefore, even the most terrible evil his children endure would not be pointless. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| aaf0da1 | When an atheist enjoys the cool breeze of a sunny autumn day as he writes his treatise saying God doesn't exist, the ultimate source of his pleasure remains God. God is the author of the universe itself--including the powers of rational thought the atheist misuses to argue against God. David | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d162914 | Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms." --C. S. Lewis" -- | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 37cdc02 | The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts." --George Muller" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2d03137 | Andrew Carnegie said, "The almighty dollar bequeathed to a child is an almighty curse. No man has the right to handicap his son with such a burden as great wealth." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 75a156a | All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1ef1aa7 | The people who change lives are the ones who point us away from the world's short-term perspective to God's long-term perspective. 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 | ||
| 94394b1 | If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." --C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 22f7c38 | Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f541bb6 | Ever seen that bumper sticker "He who dies with the most toys wins"? Millions of people act as if it were true. The more accurate saying is "He who dies with the most toys still dies--and never takes his toys with him." When we die after devoting our lives to acquiring things, we don't win--we lose. We move into eternity, but our toys stay behind, filling junkyards. The bumper sticker couldn't be more wrong." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9c42967 | The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 72db432 | He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." --Jim Elliot" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9aafd0a | If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next." --C. S. Lewis" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e516daa | Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, "[God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands--in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| dff0ce7 | The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called." --Horatius Bonar" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 63419d1 | To be truly happy--a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world." --J. C. Ryle" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5f5fa91 | God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us. | Randy Alcorn |