Randy Alcorn Quotes

From beginning to end, Scripture repeatedly emphasizes God's ownership of everything: "To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it" .When I grasp that I'm a steward, not an owner, it totally changes my perspective.

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

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

A lot of people look for you to change. Everything has stayed the same. Financially, this is God's money, and my wife and I are just stewards of it.

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.

To a good spender God is the Treasurer.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

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

God owns all the wealth in the world!

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.