Top 100 R.C. Sproul Quotes
#1. I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
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#2. To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
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#3. Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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#4. Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.
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#5. We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
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#6. When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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#7. This: If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?
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#8. We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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#9. No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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#10. The power of the gospel is the word of God ... nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
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#11. It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is.
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#12. Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
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#13. To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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#14. Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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#15. In order to be able to count earthly sorrows and afflictions as matters of joy, we have to cultivate the ability to think in terms of the future.
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#16. Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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#17. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard
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#18. To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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#19. Before the Fall Adam was endowed with two possibilities: He had the ability to sin and the ability not to sin. After the Fall Adam had the ability to sin and the inability to not sin.
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#20. He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
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#21. It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.
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#22. Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.
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#23. God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.
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#24. We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'
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#25. Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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#26. The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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#27. The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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#28. the biblical King both reigns and rules. And He carries out His rule not by referendum but by His personal sovereignty. AN
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#29. Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
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#30. What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself
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#31. The Bible teaches us again and again that we are slaves to sin. Sin is not only in our nature, but it is our master.
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#32. Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.
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#33. Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.
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#34. Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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#35. What accounts for Luther's behavior? One things is certain: Whatever defense mechanisms normal people have to mute the accusing voice of conscience, Luther was lacking.
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#36. When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.
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#37. The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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#38. Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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#39. Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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#40. Far from God seeking to destroy the "self" as many distortions of Christianity would claim, God redeems the self. He heals the self so that it may be useful and fulfilled in the mission to which the person is called.
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#41. When God says something, the argument is over.
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#42. The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
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#43. We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior.
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#44. Love God? Sometimes I hate Him. This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther.
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#45. The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.
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#46. When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
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#47. Of Drs. Clowney, Packer, Sproul, Norman L. Geisler, Harold W. Hoehner, Donald E. Hoke, Roger R. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard around the clock to prepare a statement that might receive the approval of a great majority of the participants. Very special attention
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#48. No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth.
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#49. 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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#50. True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
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#51. What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
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#52. God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
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#53. Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
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#54. For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
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#55. The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
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#56. Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
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#57. Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself.
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#58. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much
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#59. Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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#60. It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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#61. Know God's Will? How Should I Live in This World? What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Can I Be Sure I'm Saved? What Is Faith? What Can I Do with My Guilt? What Is the Trinity? What Is Baptism? Can I Have Joy in My Life? Who
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#62. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.
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#63. If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.
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#64. No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, and
when we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.
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#65. The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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#66. The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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#67. We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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#68. The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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#69. Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That's why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not to trust in the promises of God.
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#70. If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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#71. There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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#72. God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.
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#73. Christ is "truly God and truly man" (Vera Deus, vera homo).
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#74. What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices.
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#75. 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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#76. Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.
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#77. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.
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#78. On the hired man's face as he threw up his hands and replied, It's the decisions in life that are difficult.
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#79. At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.
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#80. Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads
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#81. The apostle said he was "hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed." He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering. Paul freely admitted the pressure he experienced.
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#82. To be a saint means to be separated. But it means more than that. The saint also is to be involved in a vital process of sanctification. We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness. If we are justified, we must also be sanctified.
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#83. To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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#84. The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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#85. be more important than the cross? Without it we have no atonement, no redemption. Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without
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#86. The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house.
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#87. This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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#88. Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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#89. A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
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#90. He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean
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#91. There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden ...
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#93. Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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#94. The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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#95. The glorification of God in heaven brings unspeakable, eternal, uninterrupted joy. Jesus
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#96. We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God's Word certainly doesn't give us the luxury of believing that.
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#97. We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
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#98. I can't make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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#99. All of our prayers are to include thanksgiving. Like the leper, we must pause, turn back, and give thanks. We are so indebted to God that we can never exhaust our opportunities for expressing gratitude. Forgetting
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#100. If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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