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Money, Possessions and Eternity QUOTES

Money, Possessions and Eternity QUOTES

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

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

2 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

3 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

4 " To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

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

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

6 " If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then? "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

7 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

8 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

9 " Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

10 " 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. "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

11 " Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships. "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

12 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

13 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

14 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

15 " 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. "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

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

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

17 " Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.) "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

18 " We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages. "

― Randy Alcorn , Money, Possessions and Eternity

19 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity

20 " 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 , Money, Possessions and Eternity