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.
D. A. CarsonThere is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
D. A. CarsonBoth God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
D. A. CarsonPrayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
D. A. Carson