R. C. Sproul Quotes
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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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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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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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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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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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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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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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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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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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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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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 can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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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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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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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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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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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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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
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We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
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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.