R. C. Sproul Quotes
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If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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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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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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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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In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
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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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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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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
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There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
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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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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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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 Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
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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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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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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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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 fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.