Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
D. A. CARSONIf 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.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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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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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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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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To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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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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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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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’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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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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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
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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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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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