R. C. Sproul Quotes
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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
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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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We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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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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For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
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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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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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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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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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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
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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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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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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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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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I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
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Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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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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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.