R. C. Sproul Quotes
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
Quotes to Explore
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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I don't get claustrophobic.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.
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Time and again they have told us we are obligated, we have our duty, we must be willing to fight against whatever it is that threatens. We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
