D.A. Carson Quotes

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!

I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself.

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

I love music. I love going out dancing.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

The world is certainty a sudden place.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

Passion is more important than justice.

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.

We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

I'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals ... she has NEXT written on her knickers.

I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was.

A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."

The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid.

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.