Randy Alcorn Quotes

I think evil is very relative.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Benjamin Disraeli might be an excellent Christian but he is assuredly a detestable pagan.

Secularism has no central goal, it's just promoting endless relativism. That's why there is a huge moral drift in the country. Everybody is infallible except the Pope, if you like.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

Next, they'll say, "Do you want to go to heaven?" Have you ever had anybody say, "No, I'd rather go to hell." My friend, understand this, everyone wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.