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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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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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
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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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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
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I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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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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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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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.