R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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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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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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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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Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
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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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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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The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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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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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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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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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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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.