R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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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 Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
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The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.
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We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.
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It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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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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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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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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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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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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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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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.