R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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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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If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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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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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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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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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 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 principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
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We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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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.