Top 100 Sproul Quotes
#1. and perhaps not even Dr. Sproul, since his text underwent certain editorial revisions. However, this commentary represents an effort at making clear the precise position of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy as a whole.
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#2. 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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#3. Sproul. These were discussed in a number of ways by groups of delegates from the Advisory Board and in various partial and plenary sessions at the summit. Furthermore, written comments were solicited and received in considerable numbers. A Draft Committee composed of Drs. Clowney,
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#4. There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics.
When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?
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#5. The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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#6. We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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#7. 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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#8. I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
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#9. The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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#10. 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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#11. There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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#12. We must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works.
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#13. 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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#14. To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
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#15. 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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#16. Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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#17. The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.
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#18. The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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#19. We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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#20. Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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#21. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
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#22. Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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#23. I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#31. The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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#32. 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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#33. Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.
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#34. Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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#35. We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
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#39. 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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#40. God does not vacillate on His promises.
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#41. There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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#42. If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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#43. 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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#44. It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.
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#45. 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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#46. God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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#47. 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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#48. It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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#49. The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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#50. 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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#51. When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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#52. 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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#53. The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it's meant also to be sung.
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#54. This: If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?
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#55. 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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#56. God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
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#57. We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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#58. No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. God is never pleased with ignorant worship, with worship that is not grounded in the knowledge of God.
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#64. It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
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#68. The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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#76. 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.
Some
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#77. The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
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#78. 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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#79. To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
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#80. I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
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#81. 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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#82. No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.
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#83. Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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#84. 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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#85. He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.
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#86. Could not God originally have decreed that no one ever would be able to sin, thus
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#87. 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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#89. If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God.
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#90. 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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#91. I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
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#92. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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#93. Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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#94. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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