D. A. Carson Quotes

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• The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety…
• Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy…
• There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
• Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their…
• How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those…
• You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
• The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
• The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
• If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
• The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of…
• Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins…
• Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
• What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of…
• Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the…
• The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else…
• Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the…
• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is…
• A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the…
• The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

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