R. C. Sproul Quotes
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
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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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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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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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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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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.
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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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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.
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The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
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Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
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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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To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
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It's easy to be an educated fool.