D.A. Carson

"Here then is a practical test as to whether the excellence I pursue is really for the glory and praise of God or for my own self-image.  If the things I value are taken away, is my joy in the Lord undiminished?  Or am I so tied to my dreams that the destruction of my dreams means I am destroyed as well?"

D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, p.142

D.A. Carson

"The church is to see itself as an outpost of heaven.  It is a microcosm of the new heaven and the new earth, brought back, as it were, into our temporal sphere.  We are still contaminated by failures, sin, relapses, rebellion, self-centeredness; we are not yest what we ought to be.  But by the grace of God, we are not what we were.  For as long as we are left here, we are to struggle against sin, and anticipate, so far as we are able, what it will be like to live in the untarnished bliss of perfect righteousness.  We are to live with a view to the day of Christ."

D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, p.137

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"The disposition of a sincere heart in prayer is a repentant heart"

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D.A. Carson

"If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent us 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."

D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, p.109