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.
D. A. CARSONHe is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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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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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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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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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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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
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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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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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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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If 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.
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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.
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Justice 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.”
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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