D.A. Carson Quotes

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

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

Lava bread makes you passionate.

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

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

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

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?

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

The writer must hew the phantom rock.

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

I don't worry about things that aren't important.

What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

I have a pacemaker in, but it doesn't work very well, because every time I fart the garage door opens.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Only lie about the future.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.