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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 083c636 | When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ea66139 | God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us." --Sinclair Ferguson" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 76ea0fd | When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 007f650 | When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b273fe9 | The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7ad720e | The Bible tells us we are pilgrims, strangers, aliens and ambassadors working far from home. Our citizenship is in Heaven. But we've become so attached to this world that we live for the wrong kingdom. We forget our true home, built for us by our Bridegroom. Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is money, sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen .. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2c5517a | You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion" (2 Corinthians 9:11)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ba7fbe0 | Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it (Matthew 5:27-28). | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3a1ea3a | Festus] declared: "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!" | Acts of the Apostles | ||
| f0870c1 | Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9f324b1 | For anyone who knows what it is to weep over sin or loss or pain, Heaven offers a beautiful promise: one day God himself will wipe the tears from our eyes. And even better, one day he will transform those tears into laughter. The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:17 | Randy Alcorn | ||
| acf410b | God alone is the Fountain of Life. Without Him there could be neither life nor joy, neither abundance nor delights. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7b1d58a | C. S. Lewis put it this way: We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.5 Even many Christians have settled for a life of unsatisfying material acquisitions, like making mud pies in a slum. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| fb8a5ef | 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. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8f12bb0 | Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement--it all adds up to one word: happiness" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 6b141e6 | When I speak elsewhere in the book of the multifaceted joys of the resurrected life in the new universe, some readers may think, But our eyes should be on the giver, not the gift; we must focus on God, not on Heaven. This approach sounds spiritual, but it erroneously divorces our experience of God from life, relationships, and the world--all of which God graciously gives us. It sees the material realm and other people as God's competitors r.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 90f83b1 | In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a long,lonely march up a hill, who in the world's worst hour did the most courageous thing ever done. At the end of His climb,He spread out His arms and permitted guilty men to drive nails into His hands and feet. He endured untold agony to give undeserving men- like Mike Hollis, Derrick Freeman, Nathan Hayes, and Adam Mitchell- .. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9a26d2c | the video Homesick for Heaven: | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ec543ac | C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d1781dd | 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) | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 863e128 | Our degree of happiness in life largely depends on: the amount of happiness we believe should be rightfully ours our ability to find delight in a fallen world God will redeem our ability to see the little things--the ten thousand reasons for happiness that surround us that we easily ignore | Randy Alcorn | ||
| a837609 | Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| adc8b18 | We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 4f3c883 | Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8de8bbc | Thomas Watson (1620-1686), a Puritan preacher and author, said, "He has no design upon us, but to make us happy. . . . Who should be cheerful, if not the people of God?" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ca87693 | SCRIVEN (1820-1886) wrote "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" after his fiancee drowned. George Matheson (1842-1906) wrote "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" after his fiancee rejected him because he was going blind." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 6370207 | Sinclair Ferguson writes, "Christian contentment is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3ee2dee | If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e3c1a50 | It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c99a869 | We should thank God for every stream of joy in our lives while recognizing that Christ is the ocean from which every stream flows. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b9f227b | Never believe a man who says God no longer does miracles, Ben. But never believe a man who says God must do a miracle the way a man wants him to. God is God. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 45fcf59 | Jewel the Unicorn] cried.- "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.... Come further up, come further in!" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d750526 | The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. 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 God." --Margaret Clarkson" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1f1602e | Imagine you're alive at the end of the Civil War. You're living in the South, but you're a Northerner. You plan to move home as soon as the war's over. While in the South you've accumulated lots of Confederate currency. Now, suppose you know for a fact the North's going to win the war, and the end is imminent. What will you do with your Confederate money? If you're smart, there's only one answer. You should immediately cash in your Confeder.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 32dab24 | But doesn't Shengjing promise to wipe away all tears?" "That promise is for after he defeats sin and ends suffering and sets up his Kingdom. That time has not yet come." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 270cc6d | No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| bc29faa | The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself with secondary ways of escape so he will have a way out if the roof caves in. What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day. A. W. TOZER | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7d1edf8 | One hundred percent of royalties from Safely Home go to help persecuted Christians and to spread the gospel in their countries. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 53b3c02 | Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live...like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, [these lone rangers] are vulnerable to predators of every sort." --Nancy Leigh DeMoss" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| a81adb2 | Nothing can make that man truly miserable that hath God for his portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that [lacks] God for his portion. God is the author of all true happiness; he is the donor of all true happiness; he is the maintainer of all true happiness, and he is the centre of all true happiness. . . . He that hath him for his God, for his portion, is the only happy man in the world. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 55fad3b | Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our "giving" is merely discarding. Donating secondhand goods to church rummage sales" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| be23338 | It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him." --J. Oswald Sanders" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8c90f0a | countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don't have in order to underwrite a "once in a lifetime opportunity." God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means turning down most good deals on things we want because God may have other and better plans for his money." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| d66b2df | Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." --John Wesley" | Randy Alcorn |