Quotes from D. A. Carson

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.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.

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.

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

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.

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

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us