R. C. Sproul Quotes
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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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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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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 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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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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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 live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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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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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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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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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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Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
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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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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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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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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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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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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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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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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.