R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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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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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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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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Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
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The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
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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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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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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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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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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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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and 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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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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Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.
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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.