Quote by D.A. Carson Download Open image ““Be patient; it is better to be a chastened saint than a carefree sinner.”” — D.A. Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one of them,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I thought I could fit everything into tidy boxes and sort right from wrong. But now I see that sometimes a saint acts like… — Amanda Cox Copy Share Image
“So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can… — C.M. Owens Copy Share Image
“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.” — Judith Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“to become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“again. Here is a sober lesson. Even after times of spectacular revival, reformation, or covenantal renewal, the people of God are never more than… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. The absence… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“If chastening were merely a matter of remedial education to morally neutral people, the timing and severity would not matter very much; we would… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The initial impetus to cross lines of race and heritage with the Gospel of Jesus Christ arose not from a committee planning world evangelization,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The greatest intercessors have always recognized that far more connects them with the common lot of sinners than what distinguishes them—and in any case… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“we cannot imagine that the church gathers for worship on Sunday morning if by this we mean that we then engage in something that… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Where there is flagrant disavowal of the truths essential to the gospel, where there is persistent and high-handed disobedience to the commands of Jesus,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“To appeal…to some ill-defined and sentimental notion of love as the ground for contravening Scripture may be a lot of things, but it is… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“In a world of finite gods (often supported by one pantheistic deity), cyclical views of history, sub-biblical understandings of sin, multiplied idolatry, dualism that… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Mosaic covenant, the peace offering (Lev 17:11ff.) was the divinely prescribed means of maintaining a harmonious relationship between God… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter is that meeting God is either transcendentally wonderful, or utterly horrific. If God meets sinners—sinners like you and me—in… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
