R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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 wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church.
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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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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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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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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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
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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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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
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Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
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The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.