D. A. Carson Quotes

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

Weeping must not hinder worship.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.