R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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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 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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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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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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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
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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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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?
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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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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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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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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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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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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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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.