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Love the church because Jesus loves it.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Missionary
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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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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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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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.
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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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The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
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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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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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Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.
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The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.
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Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
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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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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
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