Quotes from Courageous

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

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

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

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

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

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