R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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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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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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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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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 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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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.
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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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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
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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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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
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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 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 more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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Right now counts forever.
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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.