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Randy Alcorn is an American author born on June 23, 1954. His works cover a range of topics including Christian faith, ethics, and family life, and have won the hearts of readers worldwide.

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

Knows Men Self Grace Hungry Bread Righteous Resent Self Righteous Hungry Man

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“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.”

Heaven Christ Wonder Hell Grace Cost Deserve Redemption

Book:The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance

Source: The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance

“The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.”

Sin Grace Needed Materialism Bondage

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“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.”

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Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

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

Giving Vision Grace Duty

Author: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.”

Giving Christ Grace Response Altruism

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“The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a gateway to the joy of grace giving. It's unhealthy to view tithing as a place to stop, but it can still be a good place to start.”

Giving Joy Path Grace Historical Giving In Tithe

Author:Randy Alcorn

“Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.”

Giving Grace Habit Training Block Tithe

Author:Randy Alcorn

“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.”

Feels Sin Grace Comfortable Concepts Contrary Empowering Biblical God's Grace Sinning

Book:The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance

Source: The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance

“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.”

Facts Realizing Greater Grace Awful God's Grace Depravity

Author:Randy Alcorn

“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.”

People World Giving Should Doe Christian Grace Building Projects Eternal Investment Kingdoms Fund Strategic Delivery Needy God's Grace Portfolios

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“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.”

Sometimes Mistake Grace Balance Neglect Ministry

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

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“There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.”

Enjoy Knowing Grace Broke Requirements God's Grace Being Broke

Book:Grace: A Bigger View of God's Love

Source: Grace: A Bigger View of God's Love

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

Spiritual Christ Grace Building Block Dna Building Blocks

Book:The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance

Source: The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance