Alcorn Quotes

#1. every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering.

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#2. Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

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#3. God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him.

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#4. Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

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#5. How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven?

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#6. As you go through life, don't let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of God's words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

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#7. Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

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#8. When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful.

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#9. If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.

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#10. Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.

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#11. If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

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#12. Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

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#13. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. - C. S. Lewis

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#14. 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.

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#15. Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them.

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#16. Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

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#17. This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

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#18. Perhaps parents' greatest heritage to pass on to their children is the ability to perceive the multitude of God's daily blessings and to respond with continual gratitude. We should be "abounding in thanksgiving" (Colossians 2:7).

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#19. When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?

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#20. Being happy in God and living righteously tastes far better for far longer than sin does. When my hunger and thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. I say no to immorality not because I hate pleasure but because I want the enduring pleasure found in Christ.

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#21. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28, ESV).

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#22. Never forget Yesu is King. Never forget your home is in another world. Never forget your father will be waiting to see you again.

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#23. No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

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#24. When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, "This is a test." Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live.

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#25. There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

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#26. But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

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#27. Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

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#28. Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.

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#29. C. S. Lewis wrote, "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." Jesus said if your brother "sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him" (Luke 17:4).

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#30. Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

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#31. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

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#32. Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

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#33. He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.

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#34. The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

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#35. The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

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#36. We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

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#37. The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

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#38. The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)

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#39. God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

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#40. Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

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#41. What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer - they are previews of the greater life to come.

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#42. There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

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#43. Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

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#44. Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

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#45. A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

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#46. Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God's hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands.

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#47. 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.

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#48. Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

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#49. If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It's not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains closed.

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#50. My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

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#51. For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

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#52. Real gold fears no fire.

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#53. In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.

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#54. Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

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#55. But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy.

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#56. If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture ... Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

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#57. For every American who believes he's going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.

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#58. In the mid-1600s, Puritan John Gibbon said, "God alone is enough, but without him, nothing [is enough] for thy happiness."[218] Whether or not we're conscious of it, since God is the fountainhead of happiness, the search for happiness is always the search for God.

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#59. We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our "help" includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and above all to God.

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#60. The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

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#61. How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

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#62. What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot.

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#63. When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.

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#64. 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

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#65. The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

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#66. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity

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#67. Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

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#68. If we realize we're undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we're surprised at God's many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks.

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#69. We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

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#70. Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.

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#71. Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley.
Ollie Chandler in Deception

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#72. To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.

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#73. Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

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#74. The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called. - Horatius Bonar

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#75. God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.

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#76. 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

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#77. When we fail to acknowledge God as the Source of all good things, we fail to give Him the recognition and glory He deserves. We separate God from joy, which is like trying to separate heat from fire or wetness from rain.

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#78. Charles Spurgeon's answer was to recognize that whatever God's Word teaches is true, whether or not it all makes sense to us. He said, I

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#79. Now think, my brother, you will be in Heaven very soon. Since last year a great number have gone home: before next year many more will have ascended to glory. Sitting up in those celestial seats, how shall we wish that we had lived below?" - Charles Spurgeon

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#80. Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.

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#81. If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures
now that would have gotten his attention.

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#82. Since in Heaven we'll finally experience life at its best, it would be more accurate to call our present existence the beforelife rather than to call what follows the afterlife.

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#83. She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.

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#84. It often has been said that unforgiveness is like you drinking poison but expecting the other person to die.

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#85. Ithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent
it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

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#86. 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.

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#87. Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

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#88. In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

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#89. If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what else we get right.

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#90. What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

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#91. Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

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#92. When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

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#93. God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis

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#94. This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.

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#95. Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.

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#96. Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

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#97. The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. - J. C. Ryle

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#98. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250 000 people every day go either to Heaven or to Hell.

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#99. Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

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#100. You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

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