All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists. D. A. Carson More Quotes by D. A. Carson More Quotes From D. A. Carson Love the church because Jesus loves it. D. A. Carson jesus-love church jesus One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals. D. A. Carson western-culture crush tolerance The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better. D. A. Carson knowing-god knows want We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly. D. A. Carson pain Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains. D. A. Carson tolerance chains people We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick. They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel. D. A. Carson christian heart son 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. Carson gods-love bigs world To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next. D. A. Carson assuming next generations Damn all false dichotomies to hell D. A. Carson dichotomy hell damn In terms of applicability to today's world, many people are trying to domesticate Scripture so as to get the PC answer, the politically correct answer on a wide range of subjects, whether it's homosexual marriage, or a certain view of government, or a certain view of eschatology or whatever. At the end of the day we want also to encourage the kind of reverent handling of Scripture that wants to be corrected by Scripture, that is more eager to be mastered by Scripture then to master it. D. A. Carson homosexual-marriage government views When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human authors, nevertheless is God breathed and is revealed by God and is utterly reliable and all that it says, with all of its different literary genres, it's trustworthy and without mistake or distortion. It is trustworthy and therefore, because it is from God it has God's authority. D. A. Carson christian mistake believe Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence. D. A. Carson moral want believe If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility. D. A. Carson harder accepting humility 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. D. A. Carson cost heaven lying When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith? D. A. Carson religious suffering faith A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen. D. A. Carson disaster persons waiting Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray. D. A. Carson prayer spiritual mean Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back. D. A. Carson sin deeds trying Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture. Further, many of our members have long used one or two other Study Bibles, and it is important that Christians not be tied too tightly to only one option, however good it may be. D. A. Carson christian play two Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place. D. A. Carson timing sex world
