D.A. Carson Quotes

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

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

The station was tight, aggressive ... the deejays at times sounding as if they were broadcasting at gunpoint.

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

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

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Under the seams runs the pain.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

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

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

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.

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."

We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.