R. C. Sproul Short Quotes

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Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

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

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

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

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

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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one's eternal soul.

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

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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

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

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Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.

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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

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

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

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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

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

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

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Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

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

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

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

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

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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

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