R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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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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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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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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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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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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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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The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.
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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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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'
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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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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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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.
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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.