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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

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D. A. Carson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Philosopher
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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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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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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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
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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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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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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 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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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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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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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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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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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship it is gospel-inspired worship it is Christ-centered worship it is cross-focused worship.
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