Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

3. “A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.”

— R.C. Sproul

4. “We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

7. “Right now counts forever.”

— R.C. Sproul

8. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

9. “We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.”

— R.C. Sproul

10. “What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself.”

— R.C. Sproul

11. “The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

13. “God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.”

— R.C. Sproul

14. “If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.”

— R.C. Sproul

15. “Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.”

— R.C. Sproul

16. “The question is not, “Why is there only one way to God?” but “Why is there even one way?””

— R.C. Sproul

17. “The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.”

— R.C. Sproul

18. “When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.”

— R.C. Sproul

19. “Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.”

— R.C. Sproul

20. “Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can’t love what you don’t know.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

22. “To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.”

— R.C. Sproul

23. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

24. “I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.”

— R.C. Sproul

25. “God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.”

— R.C. Sproul

26. “Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”

— R.C. Sproul

27. “To say that God’s sovereignty is limited by man’s freedom is to make man sovereign.”

— R.C. Sproul

28. “God doesn’t want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.”

— R.C. Sproul

29. “Scripture does not say that God is ‘love, love, love’ or that He is ‘wrath, wrath, wrath,’ but that He is ‘holy, holy, holy.’”

— R.C. Sproul

30. “In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.”

— R.C. Sproul

31. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

32. “The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.”

— R.C. Sproul

33. “Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God’s people who celebrate the truth of God together.”

— R.C. Sproul

34. “Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.”

— R.C. Sproul

35. “At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It’s believing God.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

38. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

39. “The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

41. “The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.”

— R.C. Sproul

42. “Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.”

— R.C. Sproul

43. “It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.”

— R.C. Sproul

44. “The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.”

— R.C. Sproul

45. “It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.”

— R.C. Sproul

46. “There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God’s sovereign providence.”

— R.C. Sproul

47. “A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.”

— R.C. Sproul

48. “Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.”

— R.C. Sproul

49. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

50. “Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.”

— R.C. Sproul