R. C. Sproul Quotes
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.
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The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.
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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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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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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 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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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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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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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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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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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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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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A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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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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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.