R. C. Sproul Quotes

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

R. C. Sproul

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• There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Women
  • Love

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • America
  • Water

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Moments

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Care
  • Achievement
  • Act

• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Home
  • Peace

• I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Me
  • Care
  • Wall

• I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Today
  • Song

• It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Skins
  • Lambs
  • Lotion

• Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Country
  • America
  • Poverty

• The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Values
  • Term
  • Morality

• It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Righteousness
  • Prevail

• The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Works
  • Serve
  • Righteousness