110+ Randy Alcorn Quotes On Heaven, Money And Inspirational

Randy Alcorn is an American Christian author and the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries. He has written over fifty books, including the best-selling novel Deadline and the non-fiction book Heaven. He is a popular speaker and the author of several books on Christian living, theology, and apologetics. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Randy Alcorn on heaven, money, inspirational.

Top 10 Randy Alcorn Quotes

1. Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.
2. For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.
3. God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.
7. How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?
8. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity
9. It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.
10. Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Randy Alcorn Short Quotes

• You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.
• It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.
• I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
• There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
• You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.
• Real gold fears no fire.
• Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.
• Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.
• Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
• We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Randy Alcorn Quotes About Heaven

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? — Randy Alcorn

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic. — Randy Alcorn

Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place. — Randy Alcorn

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. — Randy Alcorn

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

God is grooming us for leadership. He's watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place. — Randy Alcorn

Randy Alcorn Quotes About Money

I believe the most dangerous misconception is the idea our money and possessions belong to us, not God. Many of our problems begin when we forget that God is the Boss of the universe. But in fact He is more than the boss; He is the owner. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

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 non materialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. — Randy Alcorn

Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow. — Randy Alcorn

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs? — Randy Alcorn

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Randy Alcorn Quotes About Encouraging

Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth. — Randy Alcorn

If you're considering going into student debt, I encourage you to seek the Lord's will through the reading and study of His Word, prayer, and the wise counsel of others before you make the decision to take out a loan. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Randy Alcorn Famous Quotes And Sayings

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it. — Randy Alcorn

If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will. — Randy Alcorn

Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy? — Randy Alcorn

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). — Randy Alcorn

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) — Randy Alcorn

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place." — Randy Alcorn

He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing? — Randy Alcorn

A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping. — Randy Alcorn

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving. — Randy Alcorn

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it. — Randy Alcorn

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

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn. — Randy Alcorn

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality. — Randy Alcorn

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day. — Randy Alcorn

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing. — Randy Alcorn

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

Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses. — Randy Alcorn

..tithing 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. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good. — Randy Alcorn

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us. — Randy Alcorn

There's a timeless truth behind the concept of giving God our firstfruits. Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, "Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more?" Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it. — Randy Alcorn

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face! — Randy Alcorn

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace. — Randy Alcorn

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving. — Randy Alcorn

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

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

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again. — Randy Alcorn

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens. — Randy Alcorn

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God. — Randy Alcorn

But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things. — Randy Alcorn

I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money and possessions to, and second, to give. Jesus says, "It is more blessed to give than to receive". As long as I still have something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish the control, power, and prestige that come with wealth. — Randy Alcorn

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

When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy.... According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid. — Randy Alcorn

Are you winning the battle against materialism? — Randy Alcorn

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning. — Randy Alcorn

Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you? — Randy Alcorn

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction. — Randy Alcorn

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

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

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. — Randy Alcorn

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground. — Randy Alcorn

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself. — Randy Alcorn

Jesus Himself was criticized. He wasn't a glutton and drunkard, but He was accused of being those things. Why? Because He went to parties where people ate and drank, and some people probably were at those parties who were drunkards and gluttons. But you don't have to be sinning just because you're in in an environment of happiness. — Randy Alcorn

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. — Randy Alcorn

Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road. — Randy Alcorn

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception — Randy Alcorn

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

Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made. — Randy Alcorn

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. — Randy Alcorn

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not. — Randy Alcorn

Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your generosity. — Randy Alcorn

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

Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse. — Randy Alcorn

In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him. — Randy Alcorn

The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients. — Randy Alcorn

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

If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of the "deceitfulness of wealth" . The psalmist warns, "Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them" . The dangers of materialism are far-reaching. We should not think that we're immune to the value-changing nature of wealth. — Randy Alcorn

Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well." — Randy Alcorn

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. — Randy Alcorn

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. — Randy Alcorn

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

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships. — Randy Alcorn

When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two representatives of humanity faced off, one of the best and one of the worst. One lived for prosperity on earth, the other didn’t. One now lives in prosperity in heaven, the other doesn’t. We remember both men for what they truly were, which is why we name our sons Paul and our dogs Nero. — Randy Alcorn

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti. — Randy Alcorn

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. — Randy Alcorn

Life Lessons by Randy Alcorn

1. Randy Alcorn emphasizes the importance of living a life of purpose and meaning, and encourages readers to seek out God's will and plan for their lives.
2. He emphasizes the importance of living a life of generosity, self-sacrifice, and service to others.
3. He also encourages readers to focus on eternal values and to make decisions that will have an impact on eternity.