Donald Arthur (D. A.) Carson was born in 1946 and is considered one of the most influential reformed biblical scholars alive today. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and has written or edited approximately sixty books.
According to Wikipedia: “Carson has been described as doing ‘the most seminal New Testament work by contemporary evangelicals’ and as ‘one of the last great Renaissance men in evangelical biblical scholarship.’”1
May the following 20 quotes from D. A. Carson serve to show you just how seriously this humble man of God took the Bible and its teachings.2
“The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.”
“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.”
“All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.”
“God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.”
“Do you wish to see God’s love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s wrath? Look at the cross.”
“Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.”
“The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.”
“A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.”
“God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.”
“The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.”
“A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.”
“The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.”
“There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.”
“That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.”
“Justice is not always done in this world; we see that every day. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, “This isn’t fair.””
“The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.”
2 All of these quotes are from the following website:
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