D.A. Carson Quotes

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

You learn from the good, you learn from the bad.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Donald Trump's impulsivity concerns me. He's fanning the flames of xenophobia and Islamophobia and the American people are speaking out against it.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

Lava bread makes you passionate.

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.