R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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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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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
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The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
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By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.
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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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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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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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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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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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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
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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 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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To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.