Inspirational Quotes by D.A. Carson
“People had false expectations of their messianic king, and they did not anticipate the coronation of their king coming through a cross. Whenever we think about this upside-down, paradoxical kingliness of Jesus, who is majestic and meek, holy and humble, we desire the same royalty that creates our hearts to be both lamb-like and lionhearted, and courageous and compassionate at the same time.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The Gospel As Center
“There is no way back to innocence. In the Bible, there is only a way forward—to the cross.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“No, there is only one way you are going to have a relationship with this kind of God, and that is if he displays sovereign grace to you. We have nothing with which to barter.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The Gospel As Center
“Do you want to know where God’s justice is most powerfully demonstrated? On the cross. Do you want to know where God’s love is most powerfully demonstrated? On the cross. There Jesus, the God-man, bore hell itself, and God did this both to be just and to be the one who declares just those who have faith in him.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“The point is that the temple in the Old Testament was the great meeting place between God and human beings, as we have seen. It was the place of sacrifice. Now Jesus, referring to his own body, says, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” He means that by the destruction of his own life and its resurrection, he becomes the great meeting place between God and human beings. By rising again after his death, he becomes the great temple with all the power that is required to bring someone back from the dead.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“There is a wonderful chapter, John 17, that is sometimes called “Jesus’s high priestly prayer,” where there is a kind of extended meditation on the fact that in eternity past the Father loved the Son in a perfection of love. And in return, the Son loved the Father in a perfection of love, past our wildest, most generous imaginations.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“O mundo antigo empregava várias polaridades para descrever a humanidade: romanos e bárbaros, judeus e gentios, escravos e livres. Todavia, nesta passagem, Paulo apresentou a única polaridade que tem importância crucial; ele distinguiu os que perecem e os que são salvos. A linha divisória entre os dois grupos é a mensagem da cru: ‘A palavra da cruz é loucura para os que se perdem, mas para nós, que somos salvos, poder de Deus’ (1Co 1. 18).”
topics: cross
“We human beings are a mystery to ourselves. We are rational and irrational, civilized and savage, capable of deep friendship and murderous hostility, free and in bondage, the pinnacle of creation and its greatest danger. We are Rembrandt and Hitler, Mozart and Stalin, Antigone and Lady Macbeth, Ruth and Jezebel. “What a work of art,” says Shakespeare of humanity. “We are very dangerous,” says Arthur Miller in After the Fall. “We meet . . . not in some garden of wax fruit and painted leaves that lies East of Eden, but after the Fall, after many, many deaths.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“Paulo não desejava que os cristãos de Corinto pensassem que o evangelho é apenas um sistema filosófico, um sistema altamente sábio que supera a tolice dos outros sistemas. Ele queria dizer muito mais onde a sabedoria humana falha completamente em lidar com as necessidades dos homens, Deus mesmo entra em ação.”
“The most spectacular display of God’s glory is in a bloody instrument of torture because that is where God’s goodness was most displayed. It is good to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus,” but we must also sing, “On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame”—because there God displayed his glory in Christ Jesus, who thus became our tabernacle, our temple, the meeting place between God and human beings.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“O evangelho não é apenas um conjunto de bons conselhos também não é boas notícias a respeito do poder de Deus. O evangelho é o poder de Deus para aqueles que creem. A cruz é o lugar em que Deus destruiu completamente toda a arrogância e pretensão dos homens.”
topics: cross
“No princípio... Deus". Ele existe. Ele não é o objeto que nós avaliamos. Ele é o criador que nos fez, e isso muda toda a dinâmica".”
“O argumento de Paulo é que nenhuma filosofia popular, nenhuma ‘sabedoria’ aceita por todos, pode ter importância duradoura, se o seu âmago não é a cruz. Não importa quais sejam os méritos ou os deméritos desses vários sistemas, eles exaurem seus recursos em níveis superficiais. Não reconciliam os homens e mulheres com o Deus vivo. E nada é mais importante do que isso. Esses sistemas não podem desvendar a sabedoria de Deus na cruz. E, se a cruz está oculta, todas as outras sabedorias são tolice. Onde está o sábio?”
topics: cross
“You cannot cut yourself off from the God of the Bible without consequences.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“How wonderful! The King of the universe, the Sovereign who has endured our endless rebellion and sought us out at the cost of his Son’s death, climaxes our redemption by praising us!”
“Fomos criados à imagem de Deus e colocados sob a responsabilidade de cuidar da criação. Quando fazemos isso, refletimos algo de Deus.”
“Modern Western evangelicalism is deeply infected with the virus of triumphalism, and the resulting illness destroys humility, minimizes grace, and offers far too much homage to the money and influence and “wisdom” of our day.”
“When we feel in our hearts and minds, as we grow older, that there has to be something more—there has to be something more satisfying, there has to be something bigger—we are right to listen to that brooding voice, because we were made for God and our souls will be restless until we know him.”
― D.A. Carson ,
from The God Who Is There
“These questions miss the point. There is a kind of longing for a display of Jesus’s power that is entirely godly, submissive, perhaps even desperate. There is another kind that puts the person making the request into the driver’s seat. Some want to see Jesus perform a sign so that they can evaluate him, assess his claims, test his credentials.”
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Donald Arthur Carson is a Canadian-born evangelical theologian and professor of New Testament.
Carson served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church in Richmond, British Columbia from 1970 to 1972. Following his doctoral studies, he served for three years at Northwest Baptist Theological College (Vancouver) and in 1976 was the founding dean of the seminary. In 1978, Carson joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he is currently serving as research professor.
Carson has written or edited 57 books, many of which have been translated into Chinese.