R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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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When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)
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Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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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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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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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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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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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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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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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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The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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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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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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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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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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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.