Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic. D. A. Carson More Quotes by D. A. Carson More Quotes From D. A. Carson 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. D. A. Carson fountain stories interesting You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself. D. A. Carson excellent worship trying A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important. D. A. Carson toys important years Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus. D. A. Carson prayer mean jesus Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness. D. A. Carson jealous wrath love-is If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience. D. A. Carson obedience holy joy 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. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. D. A. Carson drawing prayer blessing Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty. D. A. Carson christian sorry people The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross. D. A. Carson arrogance humans crosses In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?' D. A. Carson real self christian It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me. D. A. Carson unqualified father jesus How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for? D. A. Carson thank-god practice christian We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. D. A. Carson praying prayer spiritual 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. D. A. Carson sin understanding weak Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. D. A. Carson effectiveness lonely teaching Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying. D. A. Carson prayer worry The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair. D. A. Carson gentleman evil play The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin D. A. Carson self rights heart 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 D. A. Carson genuine please liberty The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern. D. A. Carson reputation approval prayer
