R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
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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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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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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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Right now counts forever.
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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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Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
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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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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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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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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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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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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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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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Doctrine does matter.
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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.