R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
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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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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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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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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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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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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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We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
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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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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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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 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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God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
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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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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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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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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.
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This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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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.