D. A. Carson Quotes

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

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• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  

  Walter Smith
  • God
  • Down
  • Looking

• I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Beginning
  • Thought
  • Wind

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Support

• He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

  

  Dane Cook
  • God
  • Love
  • Career

• I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Science
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Sky
  • Connection

• I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Up
  • Single

• People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • China
  • Beijing

• There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

  

  Kenneth H. Cooper
  • Control
  • Exercise
  • Habit

• He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Song

• explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. 'They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming'

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Moving

• Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

  

  D. A. Carson
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