R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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 have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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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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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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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.
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Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
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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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Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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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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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's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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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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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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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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If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
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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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We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
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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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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of 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.