Wonderful things Quote by D.A. Carson

“Paul is normally very reticent to speak about the wonderful things God performs through him or reveals to him.” quote by D.A. Carson — Download Open image

““Paul is normally very reticent to speak about the wonderful things God performs through him or reveals to him.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Wonderful things

More by D.A. Carson

“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

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

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 learn. But the Bible insists that this side of the Fall we are by nature and persistent choice rebels against God. If we are chastened, we whine at God's severity. If we are not chastened, we…

D.A. Carson

“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

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

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

Image

“Be patient; it is better to be a chastened saint than a carefree sinner.”

D.A. Carson

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

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

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 declares all that is material to be bad and all that is spiritual to be good, tribal deities, and not a little superstition, Paul paints a worldview of the true God, a linear view of history,…

D.A. Carson

“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

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 and his covenant people. The sin offering (Lev 4) dealt with sin as a barrier between the worshipers and God. This sin offering was a slaughtered bull, lamb, or goat with which the worshiper had identified…

D.A. Carson

Explore all 56 D.A. Carson quotes

More Wonderful things quotes

This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but…

Michael Crichton

I think the most important thing is to stay hopeful, to believe wonderful things are possible and do your best. Basically, to not give…

Irena A. Hoffman

Image

One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is…

Scott Raab

Image

“From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is…

A.L. Davroe

Image

“The Importance of Israel's Past (1–8) I Will Teach You (1–3) Truths in parables (1–2a) Things hidden from old (2–3) You Will Teach Others (4–8) The wonders of God (4) The word of God (5–8) The Insurrection of Israel's Past (9–16) They Rebelled Against God (9–11) They forsook his word (9) They forgot his works (10–11) God Rescued Them (12–16)…

Max E. Anders

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to…

Melissa Manchester

Image

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees…

James Cromwell

Image

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow…

Juan Gabriel

Image

“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when…

Fay Weldon

Image

In Vedic times, we had the great quest for the unknown. We did wonderful things; we celebrate our past vigyaan and our wonderful heritage…

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Image

As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the…

Michael Beschloss