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God Quotes by D. A. Carson
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
- Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
- The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
- 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.
- 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.
- Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
- To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
- 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…
- 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…
More God Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have… — Swami Vivekananda
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho