R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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 supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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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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Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.
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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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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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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
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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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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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Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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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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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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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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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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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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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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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 dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
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The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.
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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.