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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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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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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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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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
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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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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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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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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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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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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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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.