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D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Donald Arthur Carson
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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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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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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen they do not play fair.
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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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How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?
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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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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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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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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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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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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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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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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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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.
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Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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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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