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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: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Missionary
Philosopher
Theologian
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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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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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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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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Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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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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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
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Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
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You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.
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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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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 Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
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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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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 do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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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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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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