D. A. Carson Quotes

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• Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
• A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
• To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
• If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the…
• To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
• For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer…
• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into…
• When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to…
• God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his…
• It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his…
• Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an…
• The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The…
• The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play…
• People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the…
• If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was…
• We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
• ... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
• The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when…
• ...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
• Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy,…

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