R. C. Sproul Quotes
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe 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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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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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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If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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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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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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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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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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Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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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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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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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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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 failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness 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.
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Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.
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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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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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Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.