Quotes from Randy Alcorn

Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

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

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

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

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.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

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

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

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.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

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

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

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.