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D A Carson Inspirational Quotes (64)

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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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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.
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
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It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.
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Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
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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.
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Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship it is gospel-inspired worship it is Christ-centered worship it is cross-focused worship.
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The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
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The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.
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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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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?'
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Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.
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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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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?
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You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.
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