{"author":"Randy Alcorn","author_id":"Randy+Alcorn","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["christianity","comfort","disciple","discipline","faith","give","giving","keep","obedience","share","stewardship","trust"],"id":9024,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["generosity","heaven","help","kingdom","money","s","wealth"],"id":10658,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["excess","giving","greed","need","scripture","sharing","stewardship"],"id":16019,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["christian","god","heaven","inspirational"],"id":18637,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["heaven","jesus-christ"],"id":36231,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["dependence","faith","materialism","self-sufficiency","temptation","wealth"],"id":36917,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["christianity","finances","financial-planning","fool","foolish","hoarding","investment","materialism","planning","profits","saving","selfishness","stewardship"],"id":82218,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"He opened the first letter, No 'Dear Mr. Woods.' It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["communication","humor"],"id":95590,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["abundance","christianity","god","heaven","help","kingdom","luxury","money","poverty","provision","riches","sharing","stewardship","wealth"],"id":99658,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["heaven","inspirational"],"id":113183,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}