R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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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 problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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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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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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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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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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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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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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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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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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We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.
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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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We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
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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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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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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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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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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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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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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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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.