Deeds Quote by D. A. Carson Download Open image “Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.” — D. A. Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deeds Good deeds Shoulders Sin Trying
“Sin so contaminates every area of our being that deeds done in religious service are tainted with self-love, self-seeking, self-worship...Not only do our evil… — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
“We shouldn't enable ourselves or others to bad behavior, but should always encourage for good. Our attitude toward sin is a reflection of our… — Michael Brent Jones Copy Share Image
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Sin is not only a series of actions, it is also an attitude that ignores the law of God. But it is even more… — Jerry Bridges 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
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image