D. A. Carson Quotes

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

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.

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves,

The worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.

When we live up to our calling, we remember that in God's church people do not set the agenda, they are the agenda.

Sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

The sole heresy has become the view that there is such a thing as heresy.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Indeed, if we have experienced anything of the Father's bountiful forgiveness his mercy must become the standard of our own:

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

Godliness rests in submission to the Almighty's will, not in intercession that seeks to change that will.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

Whenever the periphery is in danger of displacing the center, we are not far removed from idolatry. The

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.