Courageous Quotes

“it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“Emily peered at him and frowned, then began to dance on the grass. “Okay, Daddy,” Emily said. “When you’re ready to dance with me, this is what you do. First, you put your right hand around my waist like this, then hold your other hand out like this. Then we sway back and forth to the music.” Face animated, she gestured gracefully while talking, lost in the moment”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“In Ephesians, there’s a command given specifically to men: ‘Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.’” Adam grew more animated. “In my case, that was exactly the problem. Ever since Dylan became a teenager, I’ve sent him negative messages. He’s only heard me say no or tell him to get home sooner or do his homework or stop playing video games. I made him angry because I never encouraged him.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous

“If you get it right about Jesus, you can afford to get some things wrong. But if you get it wrong about Jesus, in the end it won’t matter what else you got right.”
― Randy Alcorn, Courageous