Love the church because Jesus loves it.
D. A. CARSONA prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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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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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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The 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.
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True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
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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.
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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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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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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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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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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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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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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.
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