R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'
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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
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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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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church.
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When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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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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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.
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The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.