R. C. Sproul Quotes
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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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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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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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The God of popular religion is not holy.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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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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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
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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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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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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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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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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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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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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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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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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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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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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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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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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.