R. C. Sproul Quotes
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I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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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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It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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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 Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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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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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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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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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.
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Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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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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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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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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It's easy to be an educated fool.