A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
- D. A. Carson
More Quotes By D. A. Carson
- If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a...
- People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience...
- If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he...
- All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our...
- The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and...
- What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common...
- Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced;...
- The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
- Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah...
- …sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances,...
- Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
- We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
- Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run...
- The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting....
- When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t...
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