May Quote by D. A. Carson Download Open image “Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.” — D. A. Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Our prayers Our world Prayer Self Self centered World
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.” — Emmanuel D'Alzon Copy Share Image
Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His. — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Prayer is abandoning hope of independent capability and believing that in Christ you’re given everything you need for life and godliness.” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé, while others… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
