R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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 principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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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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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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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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The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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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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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
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If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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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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Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
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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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There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.