R. C. Sproul Quotes
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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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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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
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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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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
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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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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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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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It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
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Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
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Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
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Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
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God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.