D. A. Carson Quotes

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• We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our…
• Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
• Love the church because Jesus loves it.
• All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
• Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
• The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.
• We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
• The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
• A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the…
• Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined…
• Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
• Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
• Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
• If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
• A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
• We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
• That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
• Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
• It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
• Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

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