D.A. Carson Quotes
As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?
I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.
Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.
Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: "Have a drink on me." The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag.
I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.
Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.
Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.
I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
There was an Irish space program to go to the sun. They went at night so they didn't get burnt.
