163 Quotes by D. A. Carson

We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

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

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

Some 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 engage in serious Bible study; they value moral probity, especially of the public sort, but do not engage in war against inner corruptions; they fret over the quality of the preacher's sermon but do not worry much over the quality of their own prayer life. Such Christians are content with mediocrity.

There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.

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.

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

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.