R. C. Sproul Quotes
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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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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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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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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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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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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.
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The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.
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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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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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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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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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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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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before 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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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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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.