black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

D. A. Carson

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

Important Toy Years
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.
D. A. CARSON

Cost Heaven Lying
If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
D. A. CARSON

Holy Joy Obedience
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.
D. A. CARSON

Judgment Looks Want
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
D. A. CARSON

God Knowing Knows Want
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
D. A. CARSON

Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
D. A. CARSON

Faith Religious Suffering
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
D. A. CARSON

Reverence Sacred Want
The Christian’s whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
D. A. CARSON

Christian Jesus Winning
We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick.
D. A. CARSON

Beaten Christian Heart Son
God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
D. A. CARSON

Limitation May People Self
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
D. A. CARSON

Effectiveness Lonely Teaching
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

Boys Doors Running
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
D. A. CARSON

Damn Dichotomy Hell
Love the church because Jesus loves it.
D. A. CARSON

Church Jesus Love
How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.
D. A. CARSON

Dicatted Example God Memorize Person

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More D. A. Carson Quotes