R. C. Sproul Quotes
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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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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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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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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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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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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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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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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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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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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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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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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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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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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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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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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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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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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
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The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful