R. C. Sproul Quotes
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God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
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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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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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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.
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Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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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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Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'
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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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Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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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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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
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The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.