D. A. Carson Quotes

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

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.

Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God.