R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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 more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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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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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 failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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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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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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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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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.
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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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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 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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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"