Randy Alcorn Quotes

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

To be able to lean back on my faith and to realize that God's plan is way bigger than mine. You have to trust in that.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.