R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
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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 only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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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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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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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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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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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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God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.
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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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We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.
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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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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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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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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.