Humans Quote by D. A. Carson Download Open image “We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.” — D. A. Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Lost Mean Nature of man Opinion
Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice. — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves — Sarah Grand 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
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon 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
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
