Top 352 Quotes & Sayings by R. C. Sproul - Page 6

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.

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.

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.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

It's a sin to bore people.

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

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

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

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

The God of popular religion is not holy.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

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

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

Doctrine does matter.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

Sin is cosmic treason

When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

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.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

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.

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

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

The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.