Top 100 R C Sproul Quotes
#1. The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.
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#2. I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
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#3. To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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#4. In The City of God Augustine says: "The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it.
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#5. The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
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#6. Somewhere, somehow, something must have the power of being. If not, we are left with only two options: (1) being comes from nothing or (2) nothing is (a contradiction). These options would be more miraculous than miracles if such were possible.
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#7. The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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#8. In this life, we need the second touch of Christ. Indeed, we require a third, fourth, fifth, and continual touch. Though the scales are removed from our eyes, we still need to be led by the hand of Jesus.
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#9. Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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#10. 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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#11. To reduce the demands of God's law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one's own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.
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#12. Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.
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#13. The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love." If that is your thought, your god is an idol.
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#14. The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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#15. If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
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#16. The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.
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#17. 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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#18. It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is.
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#19. God is never pleased with ignorant worship, with worship that is not grounded in the knowledge of God.
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#20. If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
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#21. I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore.
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#22. 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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#23. In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
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#24. No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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#25. We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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#26. Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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#27. If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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#28. 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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#29. If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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#30. 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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#31. The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology is free to run wild.
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#32. To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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#33. The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.
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#34. I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victim
of the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to add insult to injury.
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#35. Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not thereby delivered from all pain and misery. Indeed, as we shall see, we His people are called to participate in His suffering.
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#36. For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
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#37. Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion?
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#38. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard
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#39. God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
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#40. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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#41. I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
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#42. Conducted by the Draft Committee. The present text makes clear exactly what the Council affirmed and denied. Obviously, those who signed the articles do not necessarily concur in every interpretation advocated by the commentary. Not even the members of the Draft Committee
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#43. If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God.
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#45. James 1:13 specifically says that God tempts no one. God may test, but He never tempts to evil. A test is for growth; temptation is toward evil. Not
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#46. Could not God originally have decreed that no one ever would be able to sin, thus
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#47. He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.
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#48. 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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#49. Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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#50. No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.
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#51. The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.
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#52. In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.
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#53. Galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that they offer little help in achieving an accurate picture of what Christ looked like during the period of His incarnation. This multiplicity
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#54. At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
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#55. It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine.
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#56. Just as the Word of God is used in conversion, so it is a critical instrument in our spiritual growth. By immersing ourselves in the Word of God, we begin to gain the mind of Christ and learn what discipleship is.
In
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#57. It is precisely the presence and help of Christ in times of suffering that makes it possible for us to stand up under pressure.
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#58. I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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#59. Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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#60. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
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#61. Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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#62. We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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#63. The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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#65. Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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#66. When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
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#67. To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
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#68. 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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#69. We must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works.
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#70. There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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#71. Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.
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#72. The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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#73. I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
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#74. All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
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#75. We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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#76. If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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#77. God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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#78. This: If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?
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#79. The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it's meant also to be sung.
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#80. Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
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#81. When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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#82. There is but one who qualifies as Savior. He alone has the ability to solve our most abysmal dilemma. He alone has the power of life and death.
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#83. The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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#84. It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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#85. Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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#86. God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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#87. We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.
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#88. of a total of 268) affixed their signatures to the Nineteen Articles.
It was indicated that the Draft Committee would meet within the year to review and, if necessary, revise the statement.
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#89. The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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#90. There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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#91. God does not vacillate on His promises.
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#92. from all other creatures. Jesus is called the monogenes, the "only begotten" of the Father. There is a sense in which Jesus and Jesus alone is begotten of the
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#93. In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
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#94. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.
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#95. I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
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#96. We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
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#97. Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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#98. Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.
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#99. 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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#100. The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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