R. C. Sproul, Jr. Quotes

Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Real
  • Soul

• I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Community

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Blind

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Faith
  • Identity
  • Young

• I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Faith
  • Mystic

• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Thoughts

• The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Faith
  • Universe
  • Inspiration

• My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' John O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Faith
  • Audience
  • Trouble

• One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Good

• Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • Faith
  • Causes
  • Regeneration