R. C. Sproul - God Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

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

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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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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

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Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

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Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

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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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Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

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Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

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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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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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