D. A. Carson Quotes

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

Fear God and work hard.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.