R. C. Sproul Quotes
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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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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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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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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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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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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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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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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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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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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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
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Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
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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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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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We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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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.)