R. C. Sproul Quotes

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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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  Life Changing, Believe, Thinking

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• Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

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  People, Happened, Happens

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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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  Sea, Alive, Breathe

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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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  Wrath, Idols, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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• The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

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  Men, Servant Of God, Church Today

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2016

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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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  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• 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.

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  Passion, Exercise, Weekend

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• We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.

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  Running, Desire, Theology

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Chosen by God”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

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  Love, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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• 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

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• When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

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  Problem, Word Of God

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

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  Spiritual, Opinion, Offers

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• 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.

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  God, Christian, Differences

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• It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

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  Believe, Believe In God, One Thing

  Twitter post from May 18, 2016

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• The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

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  Order, Differences, Doe

  R.C. Sproul (2008). “Discovering the God Who Is: His Character and Being. His Power and Personality”, p.23, Gospel Light Publications

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

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  Needs, Christ, Universe

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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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  Mistake, Heart, Choices

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

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  Order, Holiness, Accommodate

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• 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.

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  Heart, Desire, Doe

  R. C. Sproul (2005). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.159, Baker Books

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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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  Mean, Servant Of God, World

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.13, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Ideas

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• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

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  Christian, Issues, Theology

  R. C. Sproul (2009). “Knowing Scripture”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• 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"

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  Atheist, Philosophical, Men

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• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

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  Bible, Real, Passion

  "Knowing Scripture". Book by R. C. Sproul, 1977.

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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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  Humanity, Deities, Human Nature

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