R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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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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Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
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The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
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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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Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.
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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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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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The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.
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God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
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Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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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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Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.