R. C. Sproul Quotes

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

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• Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
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• It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

  

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• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  

  Orson Pratt
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• The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

  

  Dana Snyder
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• There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Person
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• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Time
  • Women
  • Employees

• Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
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• Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Ideas
  • New
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• Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in? Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger –- we were strangers once, too.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Scripture

• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  

  Yann Martel
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• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
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• In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • God
  • Purpose
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• One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Success
  • Confidence
  • Genius

• My office will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the ill-gotten gains of those who engage in this conduct are returned to investors, that wrongdoers are held responsible, and that the appropriate reforms are implemented to halt this egregious activity.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Investors
  • Engage
  • Reforms

• We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Hands
  • Judgment

• There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Black

• Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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