Randy Alcorn Quotes

I believe the most dangerous misconception is the idea our money and possessions belong to us, not God. Many of our problems begin when we forget that God is the Boss of the universe. But in fact He is more than the boss; He is the owner.

The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man....Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that - the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God. When it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.