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.

  

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

  

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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?

  

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

  

  Yves Behar
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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
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  • 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
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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
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• By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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  • Authority

• I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

  

  William Jones
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• The darkest prisons were those of the mind.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
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• It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

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

  

  R. C. Sproul
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