D. A. Carson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.”
-- D. A. CarsonSource : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.29, Baker Academic
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“...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.”
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“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
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“We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.”
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“If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.”
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“Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.”
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“Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.”
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“Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.”
-- D. A. CarsonSource : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.33, Baker Academic
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“The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).”
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“Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.”
-- D. A. CarsonSource : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.37, Baker Academic
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“The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.”
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“A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.”
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“Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.”
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“The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.”
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“A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
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“The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.”
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“Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.”
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“It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.”
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“That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.”
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“There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.”
-- D. A. CarsonSource : D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.72, Baker Academic
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“Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.”
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“If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.”
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“We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.”
-- D. A. CarsonSource : D. A. Carson (1996). “Exegetical Fallacies”, p.9, Baker Books
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“Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.”
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“Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.”
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“Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.”
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“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”
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“There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.”
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“One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic†movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.”
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