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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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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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 not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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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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We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.
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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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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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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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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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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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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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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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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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Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
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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 the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
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It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.
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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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I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
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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.