D.A. Carson Quotes

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself".

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

I'm allergic to stupidity.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

By thinking big, we can transform our world.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Next to music beer was best.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.