Quotes from DA Carson
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
- DA Carson
At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.
- DA Carson
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
- DA Carson
The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
- DA Carson
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
- DA Carson
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
- 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
Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
- DA Carson
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
- DA Carson
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
- DA Carson
That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
- DA Carson
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
- DA Carson