D. A. Carson Quotes

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

First open your heart, then open your Bible.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.

I want to know God's thoughts.