R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).
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Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.
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Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.
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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
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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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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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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
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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 God of popular religion is not holy.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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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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Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
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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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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 presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.