R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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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 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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God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
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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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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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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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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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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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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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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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One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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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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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 neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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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 irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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.