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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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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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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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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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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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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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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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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We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
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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 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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To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
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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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I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
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When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.
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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 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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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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Right now counts forever.
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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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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
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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.