D.A. Carson Quotes

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

You have yourself to blame.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

You are what you think.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.