R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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 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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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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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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One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.
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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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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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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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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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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 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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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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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 more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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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 complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
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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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We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
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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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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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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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When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.