R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
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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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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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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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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
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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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If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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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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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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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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God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
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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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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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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.