R. C. Sproul Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.”
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“God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.”
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“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.”
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“God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.”
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“Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.”
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“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.”
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“We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.”
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“The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.”
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“The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.”
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“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.”
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“There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can’t think of any more serious delusion than that...”
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“The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.”
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“The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.”
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“Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”
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“The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.”
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“It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.”
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“In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.”
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“The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.”
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“There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.”
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“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.”
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“We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.”
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“We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.”
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“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.”
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“When God says something, the argument is over.”
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“Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.”
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“Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.”
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“At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.”
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“We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.”
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“To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.”
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