R. C. Sproul Quotes

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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.

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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

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To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

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What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.

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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

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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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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

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We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

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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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Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

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Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

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There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that...

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Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

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In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

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Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

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I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

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A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

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But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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