R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
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It's a sin to bore people.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.
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We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
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Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.
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The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.
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Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace.
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
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There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
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We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.