R. C. Sproul Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• 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

• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

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  God, Faith, Christian

• 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.

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  Strong, Heart, Hands

• When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

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  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.94, Hendrickson Publishers

• Grace and mercy are never deserved.

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  Grace And Mercy, Grace, Mercy

• But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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  Blessing, Heaven, Grace

  R. C. Sproul (2003). “In the Presence of God: Devotional Readings on the Attributes of God”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Men, Grace, Salvation

  R. C. Sproul (1984). “Effective Prayer”, Tyndale House Pub

• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

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  Grace, Fallen World, Definitions

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

• 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

• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

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  Heart, Grace, Pharaohs

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

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  Grace, Infinite, Gracious

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.95, Hendrickson Publishers

• We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

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  Faith, Religious, Long

• We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

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  Grace, Infinite, Holiness Of God

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.95, Hendrickson Publishers

• God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

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  Fall, Grace, Limits

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.95, Hendrickson Publishers

• God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

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  Jesus, Grace, Supplies

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2016

• If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

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  Essence, Grace, Ifs

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.176, Hendrickson Publishers

• The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

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  Grace, Our Relationship, Relationship With God

• The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

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  Father, Son, Sacrifice

• Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

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  Fall, Heart, Men

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.199, Hendrickson Publishers

• If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

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  Grace, Enemy, Vulnerable

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2016

• 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.

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  Character, Essence, Giving

• Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

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  Men, Grace, Firsts

• 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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  Religious, Jesus, Father

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