Quotes from Randy Alcorn

This place [Heaven] is not an ethereal realm of disembodied spirits, because human beings are by nature physical. (We are also spiritual.) What we are suited for - what we've been specifically designed for - is a place like the one God made for us: Earth.

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.

If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250 000 people every day go either to Heaven or to Hell.

In the end, we have two choices: both God and happiness neither God nor happiness

Without Christ not one step," David Livingstone declared, "with Him anywhere.

God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place.

But doesn't Shengjing promise to wipe away all tears?" "That promise is for after he defeats sin and ends suffering and sets up his Kingdom. That time has not yet come.

No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.

The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself with secondary ways of escape so he will have a way out if the roof caves in. What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day. A. W. TOZER

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither."34 We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.

Charles Spurgeon said of 1 Timothy 1:11, "The Gospel is also the Gospel of happiness. It is called 'the glorious Gospel of the blessed God.' A more correct translation would be, 'the happy God.' Well, then, adorn the Gospel by being happy!"[17]

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