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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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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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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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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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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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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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