D. A. Carson Quotes

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

Theology is anthropology.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.