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.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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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.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.
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My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
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Will darted back to the gutter, and picked up the knife, and the fight was over. The young man, cut and battered, clambered up the step, and saw Will standing above him holding the knife; he stared with a sickly anger and then turned and fled.
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
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I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
