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• Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

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  Prayer, Worry

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• The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

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  Prayer, Approval, Reputation

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

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  Treasure, Horror, Sin

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• 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

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• There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

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  Christian, Maturity, Discipline

  D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.72, Baker Academic

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• 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

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• We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Praying

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.19, Baker Academic

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• Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

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  Wrath, Wish, Looks

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• You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

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  Trying, Worship, Excellent

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• To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

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  Loving God, Knowing God, Knows

  D. A. Carson (1991). “The Gospel According to John”, p.556, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

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  Jesus, Father, Unqualified

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• We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

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  Brother, Blood, Lust

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• A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

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  Waiting, Disaster, Persons

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• Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Drawing

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• In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

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  Christian, Real, Self

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.83, Baker Academic

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• 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

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• The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

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  Arrogance, Crosses, Humans

  D. A. Carson (2004). “The Cross and Christian Ministry: An Exposition of Passages from 1 Corinthians”, p.15, Baker Books

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• Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

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  Conceited, Worship, Sometimes

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• 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

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• If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

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  Joy, Obedience, Holy

  D. A. Carson (1991). “The Gospel According to John”, p.6, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

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  Pain

  D. A. Carson (1996). “Exegetical Fallacies”, p.9, Baker Books

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• Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.99, Baker Academic

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• Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

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  Lonely, Teaching, Effectiveness

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• 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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• Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, "This isn't fair."

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  Justice, Everyday, Lasts

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