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.
D. A. CARSONJustice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, “This isn’t fair.”
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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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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It’s just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.
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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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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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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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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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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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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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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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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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