Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.”

— R.C. Sproul

52. “Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.”

— R.C. Sproul

53. “Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.”

— R.C. Sproul

54. “Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

56. “The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.”

— R.C. Sproul

57. “If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.”

— R.C. Sproul

58. “We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.”

— R.C. Sproul

59. “If God says, ‘I forgive you,’ you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.”

— R.C. Sproul

60. “Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.”

— R.C. Sproul

61. “Isn’t is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?”

— R.C. Sproul

62. “In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.”

— R.C. Sproul

63. “In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.”

— R.C. Sproul

64. “The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.”

— R.C. Sproul

65. “God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that’s why it is ‘sola gratia,’ by grace alone, that we are saved.”

— R.C. Sproul

66. “We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.”

— R.C. Sproul

67. “Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.”

— R.C. Sproul

68. “I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.”

— R.C. Sproul

69. “Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station and television channel in the land. Never does the church get as much free air time as during the Christmas season.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

71. “Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.”

— R.C. Sproul

72. “Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.”

— R.C. Sproul

73. “For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God’s elect.”

— R.C. Sproul

74. “The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.”

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75. “All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh’s heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.”

— R.C. Sproul

76. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

77. “The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.”

— R.C. Sproul

78. “True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.”

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79. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

80. “Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.”

— R.C. Sproul

81. “To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.”

— R.C. Sproul

82. “Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world’s rulers are subject to a higher authority.”

— R.C. Sproul

83. “It’s dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.”

— R.C. Sproul

84. “The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.”

— R.C. Sproul

85. “For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.”

— R.C. Sproul

86. “We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.”

— R.C. Sproul

87. “The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, ‘Oh, how I love your law.’”

— R.C. Sproul

88. “Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.”

— R.C. Sproul

89. “When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.”

— R.C. Sproul

90. “Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.”

— R.C. Sproul

91. “In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.”

— R.C. Sproul

92. “The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

94. “The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.”

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95. “Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”

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96. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

97. “The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.”

— R.C. Sproul

98. “By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.”

— R.C. Sproul

99. “Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads.”

— R.C. Sproul

100. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul