Quotes from DA Carson
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
- DA Carson
Sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
- DA Carson
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.
- DA Carson
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.
- DA Carson
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?
- DA Carson
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
- DA Carson
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
- DA Carson
Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
- DA Carson
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
- DA Carson
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
- DA Carson
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
- DA Carson
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
- DA Carson