D. A. Carson Quotes

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

No praying, it spoils business.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

God is simply love.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.