Top 352 Quotes & Sayings by R. C. Sproul
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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.
We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.
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.
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.
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.
The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
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.
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
When God says something, the argument is over.
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.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
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