R. C. Sproul Quotes
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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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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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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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 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 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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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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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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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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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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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 house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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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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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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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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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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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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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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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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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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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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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.