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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?
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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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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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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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.
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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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