R. C. Sproul Quotes

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

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

This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.

Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

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

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

Sin is cosmic treason

Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

Right now counts forever.

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.

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.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

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

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

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

People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

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

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

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

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

When God says something, the argument is over.

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

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.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.