D.A. Carson Quotes
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you
You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!"
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."
My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."
Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. 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."
It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
