R. C. Sproul Quotes
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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
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The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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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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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
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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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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
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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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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 break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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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 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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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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Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
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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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To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
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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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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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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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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.