R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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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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Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
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Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.
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Doctrine does matter.
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The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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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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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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For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
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We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
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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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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.
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Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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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.