R. C. Sproul Quotes
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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
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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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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
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The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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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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If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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Doctrine does matter.
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
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When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'
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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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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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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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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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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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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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Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
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The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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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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But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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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 Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.