Quotes from D. A. Carson

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.

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.

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?

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

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.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

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.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.