R. C. Sproul Quotes
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of 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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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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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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The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.
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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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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.
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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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What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself.
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Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.
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Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.
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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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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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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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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?"
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For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
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If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.
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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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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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Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.