D. A. CarsonThe truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer. ✨ D. A. Carson (2006). How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil, p.16, … ▶372ReflectionTruth
D. A. CarsonMany of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. ✨ D. A. Carson (1992). A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Pr… ▶374Hope
D. A. CarsonA weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross. ✨ D. A. Carson (2012). Christ and Cult… ▶374Reflection
D. A. Carson...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.352HumanityTime
D. A. CarsonSin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.331Death
D. A. CarsonWe do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. ✨ D. A. Carson (1992). A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorit… ▶375Life
D. A. CarsonA prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.354Humanity
D. A. CarsonTo 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 … ▶377Truth
D. A. CarsonFailure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.356Truth
D. A. CarsonTo know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced. ✨ D. A. Carson (1991). The Gospel According to John, p.556, Wm… ▶301Life
D. A. CarsonThe 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… ▶357Politics
D. A. CarsonWhat binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort.… ▶336LovePolitics
D. A. CarsonThat God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble. ✨ D. A. Carson (2006). How Long, O L… ▶359Reflection
D. A. CarsonSin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.304Death
D. A. CarsonIf it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility. ✨ D. A. Carson (2017). Matthew, p.748, Zondervan348Hope
D. A. CarsonWe 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 fear… ▶3610Life
D. A. CarsonThe 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.316Humanity
D. A. CarsonThe way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.261Reading
D. A. CarsonA billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.294Life
D. A. CarsonSome forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic. ✨ D. A. Carson (2005). Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implicat… ▶295Love
D. A. CarsonEffectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.285Thought
D. A. CarsonIf the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience. ✨ D. A. Carson (1991). The Gospel According to… ▶3310Death
D. A. CarsonMuch 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… ▶329LifeTime
D. A. CarsonSome Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy but do not want to… ▶285Life
D. A. CarsonTo God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience. ✨ D. A. Carson (2006). How Long, O Lord?: Refle… ▶318LifeReflection
D. A. Carson... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. ✨ D. A. Carson (1992). A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities fr… ▶329Time
D. A. CarsonEither worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.231Philosophy
D. A. CarsonDo you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.297Love
D. A. CarsonThe way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything. ✨ D. A. Carson (1996). Basics for Believers: An Exposition of Philippians, p.73, Baker Books231Reading
D. A. CarsonAll of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists. ✨ D. A. Carson (1992). A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Pa… ▶264Humanity
