R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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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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The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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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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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 complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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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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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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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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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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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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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.