R. C. Sproul Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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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  Mistake, Heart, Choices

• Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

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  Giving, Joy, Sin

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

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  Sin, Sinner

  Twitter post from Oct 3, 2017

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

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  Desire, Sin, Moments

• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

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  Sovereign, Sin, Authority

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

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  Men, Fleeing, Benefits

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

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  Waste, Stewardship, Sin

• Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

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  Sin, Pleasure

  R. C. Sproul (2009). “Knowing Scripture”, p.33, InterVarsity Press

• He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.

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  Powerful, Men, Order

• For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

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  Christian, Organization, Church

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

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Sin

• Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

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  Men, Want, Benefits

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2017

• 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.

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  Brother, Compassion, Important

• Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

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  Pride, Thinking, People

• Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.

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  Wise, Lying, Wrath

• There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

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  Hands, Long, People

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

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  Jesus, Sin, Hung

• To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

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  Alive, Sin

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.91, Baker Books

• 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.

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  Jesus, Two, Justice

• We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

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  Spiritual, Father, Son

• It's a sin to bore people.

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  People, Sin, Bores

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

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  Hands, Dirt, Sin

• Sin is cosmic treason

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  Sin, Treason, Cosmic

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.85, Hendrickson Publishers

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

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  Heart, Loss, Desire

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.95, Baker Books

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

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  Spirit, Sin, Communicate

  Twitter post from Sep 21, 2016

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