R. C. Sproul Quotes

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

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• I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Like

• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Me
  • Humble
  • Capacity

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Different
  • Home
  • Job

• There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Question
  • Gay

• I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Me
  • Learn

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • People
  • Age
  • Criticism

• Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Measured
  • Horizons

• God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Why
  • Alone

• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Good
  • Children
  • Remember

• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Fight
  • Christ
  • Temptation