R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Doctrine does matter.
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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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Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.
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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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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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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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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 higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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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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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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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 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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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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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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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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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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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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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.
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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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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
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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 Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.