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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Donald Arthur Carson
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
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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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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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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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