R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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 are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.
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If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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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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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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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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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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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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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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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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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
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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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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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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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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.
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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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God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.