R. C. Sproul Quotes

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

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

If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

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

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.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

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

We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.

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.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

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"

The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

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

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

Doctrine does matter.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

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.

The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

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.

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.

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

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

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

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?

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

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

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