R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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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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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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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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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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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 sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
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Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
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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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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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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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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 you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
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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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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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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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Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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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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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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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.