R. C. Sproul Quotes
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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I have faith in my imperfections!
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
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Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.
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I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.
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Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.
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Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
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At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
