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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Missionary
Philosopher
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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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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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 Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
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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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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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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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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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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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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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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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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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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
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...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
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