R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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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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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 grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.
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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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The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
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It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.
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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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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 irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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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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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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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.
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All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
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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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Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.