R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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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 house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.
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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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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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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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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 focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
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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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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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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.
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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.