D. A. Carson Quotes

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.

When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Even being a Christian, you go through hard times. But you either go through hard times not having hope or realizing that Jesus is the only hope.

I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.