Inspirational Quotes by D.A. Carson

“We 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 fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”

“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.”

“What a great God we have! Not only does he redeem us through the ignominious crucifixion of his much-loved Son, but he sends us his Spirit to enable us to understand what he has done. So obtuse and blind are we that we would not have begun to grasp "what God has freely given us" unless God had taken this additional step.”

“What 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. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.”

“Authority does not authenticate my person. Authority is not a privilege to be exploited to build up my ego. Authority is a responsibility to be borne for the benefit of others without regard for oneself.This alone is the Christian view.”

“divinely given framework based upon natural order of creation and appropriateness of function within a master plan. One cannot accept the Bible as authoritative while rejecting its authority concerning home and church order. One cannot”

“The aim of leadership is not to demonstrate the superiority of the leader, but to bring out all the strengths of people that will move them forward to the desired goal.”

“Egalitarians often claim that we cannot look to the Bible to settle these types of disputes; rather, we should look to church history or elsewhere. Most of the new egalitarian arguments are rooted outside of the Bible and instead seek credibility through history, archaeology, and manipulation of original Bible language. Each of these arguments is an attack on one of the perfections of Scripture: its authority, sufficiency, verbal plenary inspiration, and clarity. When these areas are undermined, the inerrancy of Scripture is ultimately at stake.”

“ha habido más mártires cristianos durante estos últimos ciento cincuenta años que en los dieciocho siglos anteriores juntos. El martirio por cuestiones de fe es mucho más común de lo que creen la mayoría de los cristianos occidentales, y es por ello importante que valoremos correctamente la actitud de Pablo cuando se disponía a morir por causa de Cristo: su sosegada contemplación de lo que tenía por delante, la serena fe que sostenía todo lo que estaba haciendo, y su dedicación a aquellas ocupaciones necesarias.”

“The recital is broken up by an outburst of praise (2:14–17), followed by a long section that not only articulates probing perspectives on the nature of Christian ministry but ties this stance to a proper estimate of the tension between inaugurated and futurist eschatology (2:14”

“Nuestro sufrimiento nos recuerda Pedro será solo “por un poco de tiempo” (1:6; 5:10); este mundo es transitorio y su inminente destino es desvanecerse (4:7). Recordar el lugar que ocupan los cristianos en la cronología escatológica de este mundo puede fortalecer su compromiso con una conducta coherente ante la presión de la sociedad.”

“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. The absence of biblical, gospel preaching explains”

“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. The absence of biblical, gospel preaching explains how we have created in our churches a generation of moralizing, therapeutic, practical deists.”

“In my reading and meditation and prayer, I noted: (1) Enoch “walked” with God. He did not ask God to change direction. (2) Rom 8:28—”And we know that all things work together etc.”: these words “we know” do not come together very often. (3) Consider Mark 5: the demons “besought” him, and he granted their request; the people of the city “besought” to leave [AV, “began to pray him”], and he acceded to their request; the man formerly possessed “besought” him [AV, “prayed him”] that he might accompany him, but Jesus did not permit him so to do. [It is the same verb in Greek as in the French version Tom is using.] A lesson: nothing is more important than the will of the Master. [Tom was reflecting on how often Christ’s will is expressed in negation, but our duty is to walk with him still, knowing that Romans 8:28 still holds true.]”

“This older view of tolerance makes three assumptions: (1) there is objective truth out there, and it is our duty to pursue that truth; (2) the various parties in a dispute think that they know what the truth of the matter is, even though they disagree sharply, each party thinking the other is wrong; (3) nevertheless they hold that the best chance of uncovering the truth of the matter, or the best chance of persuading most people with reason and not with coercion, is by the unhindered exchange of ideas, no matter how wrongheaded some of those ideas seem. This third assumption demands that all sides insist that their opponents must not be silenced or crushed. Free inquiry may eventually bring the truth out; it is likely to convince the greatest number of people. Phlogiston (an imaginary substance that chemists once thought to cause combustion) will be exposed, and oxygen will win; Newtonian mechanics will be bested, and Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics will both have their say.”

“contemporary tolerance is intrinsically intolerant. It is blind to its own shortcomings because it erroneously thinks it holds the moral high ground; it cannot be questioned because it has become part of the West's plausibility structure.”

“Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”p”

“A little self-doubt will do no harm and may do a great deal of good: we will be more open to learn and correct our mistakes. But too much will shackle and stifle us with deep insecurities and make us so much aware of methods that we may overlook truth itself.”

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.3v The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;w may the name of the LORD be praised.”x”

“We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.”