R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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 God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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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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In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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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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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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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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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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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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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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Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.
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God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
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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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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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The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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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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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.