"Some 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."

Source : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.121, Baker Academic

D. A. Carson

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“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.”
“One of the blessings of the temple is the perspective that it provides. When we go to the house of the Lord, we leave all of our cares and problems at the door. And when we come back out, theyâ€™re still there. We have to pick them back up and they havenâ€™t changed, but what has changed is us.”
“I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.”
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.”
“When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.”

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“Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.”
“I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.”

Source : Song: Wrong's What I Do Best

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