R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
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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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When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.
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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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We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.
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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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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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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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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.
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To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
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Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
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Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
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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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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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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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God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.