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

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D. A. Carson

D. A. Carson is a prominent writer and scholar in the fields of religion, theology, and literature. His works cover a wide range of topics from biblical studies to Christian theology, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.”

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Author:D. A. Carson

“I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.”

Looks Guy Casts Violent Odd Conventional Outsiders Bad Guys Odd One

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“Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.”

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Author:D. A. Carson

“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.”

Want Believe Moral Evidence Neglect Stem Distortion Moral Failure

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“What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.”

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“Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.”

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“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.”

Knows Lying Heaven Cost Treasure Kingdoms Secure Abandon Discipleship Kingdom Of Heaven

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