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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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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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The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
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Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
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If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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