Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
D. A. CarsonThat God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
D. A. CarsonA billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
D. A. CarsonIf it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
D. A. CarsonThe broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
D. A. CarsonSome Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy but do not want to engage in serious Bible study; they value moral probity, especially of the public sort, but do not engage in war against inner corruptions; they fret over the quality of the preacher's sermon but do not worry much over the quality of their own prayer life. Such Christians are content with mediocrity.
D. A. Carson