God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
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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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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When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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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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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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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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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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Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life.
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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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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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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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.
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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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Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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