R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
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The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
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What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
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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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Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and 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 Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
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If God is not sovereign, God is not 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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One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.
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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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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
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Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
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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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No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
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For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
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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.