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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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.
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The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.
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At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
