Inspirational Quotes by D.A. Carson
“Fueling all of our conflict against Satan is prayer: we are to pray “at all times in the Spirit” for the promotion and success of the gospel (Eph. 6:18). We need to pray, as 1 Thessalonians 5:17 also teaches, “without ceasing.”
“But when we believe the gospel, and the Holy Spirit resides in us, we are free to experience the explosive current of holiness that flows from the Godhead into the soul of a believer.”
“5Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
“for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.”
“If our identity is riding on our differences with other believers, we will tend to major in the study of differences. We may even find ourselves looking for faults in others in order to define ourselves.”
“Proverbs 27:19 19As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reveals the man.”
“We must also exercise trust (fiducia), making our lives consistent with the truth claims we agree with.”
“But the biblical understanding of metanoia is far more positive. Instead of merely looking inward and regretting the past, it is looking outward and forward. When Jesus says, “Repent [metanoieo], for the kingdom of heaven has come near” (Matt. 4:17), he is saying, “You must change your hearts—for the kingdom of Heaven has arrived” (Phillips). He is calling us to look ahead to the arrival of the kingdom.”
“In Romans 1:1, the apostle Paul tells us that the gospel is “the gospel of God”; it is God’s gospel.* This means the story belongs to God; it is not our story to invent, modify, or embellish. We should also trust in its power. We do not need to add anything to it to make it more powerful.”
“The English word gospel comes from the Anglo-Saxon word God-spell—literally, “God’s story.”
“someone who isn’t a Christian, but who gets the point. He’s Penn Jilette, (of Penn and Teller, the magician double-act). Here’s what he said about evangelism, or proselytism: I’ve always said that I don’t respect people who don’t proselytise. I don’t respect that at all. If you believe that there’s a heaven and a hell, and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life, and you think that it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward … how much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytise? … I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.”
“There will be hunger as well as hostility. Jesus Christ is glorious; the new creation is wonderful; death and hell are real. God is sovereign; he is gracious; and he is powerful. Let’s pray. And then let’s go. Seeing people come to Christ is such an indescribable joy. Are you available?”
“Let’s be clear: to say there is no hell or to live as if there is no hell is to call Jesus a liar.”
“It is a loving community of Christian brothers and sisters, and by being this, it gives credibility to the gospel. Indeed,”
“Perhaps one of the most difficult charges a mature Christian leader may face is the double-barreled barb that he lacks credentials and effectiveness while exercising too much authority.”
“Paul is normally very reticent to speak about the wonderful things God performs through him or reveals to him.”
“Emotional and intellectual persecution, coupled perhaps with subtle exclusions…often seduces [believers]. For the sake of gaining plaudits, it is easy to trim one’s theology or keep silent about the bits that we know will cause umbrage, in the hope of gaining the approval we crave. Alternatively, some believers fight back with a nasty anti-intellectualism, a “circle-the-wagons” mentality that is neither loving nor evangelistic but merely defensive. Ironically, Christians who adopt these postures become just as scurrilously condescending as those who are attacking them (p. 66).”
― D.A. Carson ,
from Love in Hard Places
topics: christianity
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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.