R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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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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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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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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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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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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We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.
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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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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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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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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
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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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I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
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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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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 only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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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.