R. C. Sproul Quotes
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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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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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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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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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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The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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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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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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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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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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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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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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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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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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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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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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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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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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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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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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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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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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No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.