R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
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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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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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To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
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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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Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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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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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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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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God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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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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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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Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
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What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
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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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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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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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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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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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There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.