D. A. Carson Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Self

• Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

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  Christian, Sorry, People

• If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.

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  Artist, Doctors, Profound

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.109, Baker Academic

• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

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  Liars, Hate, Wrath

• Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.

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  Jesus, Kings, People

• The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

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  Heart, Rights, Self

• Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

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  Issues, Sin, Individual

• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

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  Jealous, Love Is, Wrath

• Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

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  Dirty, Eye, Sins Not

• Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

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  Trying, Deeds, Sin

• The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

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  Treasure, Horror, Sin

• It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

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  Passion, Temptation, Sin

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.358, Harper Collins

• The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

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  Play, Evil, Gentleman

  D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.57, Baker Academic

• Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.

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  Biblical, Important, Systematic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

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  Understanding, Sin, Weak

  D. A. Carson (2012). “Christ and Culture Revisited”, p.82, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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