R. C. Sproul Quotes

It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.

Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

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.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

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 sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

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

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.

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

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

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

Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

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 Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

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

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.

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

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

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

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.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.

There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.