Quotes from DA Carson
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.
— 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
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
— DA Carson
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
— 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
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
— DA Carson
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.
— DA Carson
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
— DA Carson
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
— DA Carson
Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
— DA Carson
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.
— DA Carson