R. C. Sproul Quotes

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I can't make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

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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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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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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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Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

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The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

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We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

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In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

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In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

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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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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.

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I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

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Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

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To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

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A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

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The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can't seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it.

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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

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If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God's sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

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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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