We treat the Bible, not as if it’s a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it’s dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
D. A. CARSONThe Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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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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They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel.
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Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.
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To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13).
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A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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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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Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
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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 his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved.
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What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort.
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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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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