R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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 Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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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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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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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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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 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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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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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 is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
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The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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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 neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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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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I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
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We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.
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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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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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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 experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.