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For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.

D. A. Carson

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.
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Evil Gentleman Play
My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc.
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Footnoted Justification Sanctification Similarly
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Context Pretext Proof
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Our Prayer Self World
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
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Mistake Pain Play
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.
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Limitation May People Self
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It’s not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.
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Christian Scripture Understanding
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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Faith Religious Suffering
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.
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Beaten Christian Heart Son
Some people say What’s the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest.
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Doe People Philosophical
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.
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Sin Understanding Weak
God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
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Bigs God Love World
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.
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Christian Jesus Winning

For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.

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For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.

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