R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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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 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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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
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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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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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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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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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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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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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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 neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.