R. C. Sproul Quotes
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In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
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I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.
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A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
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We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.
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When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.