R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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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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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
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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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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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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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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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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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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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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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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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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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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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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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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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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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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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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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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.