Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.”

— R.C. Sproul

102. “Those who understand God’s sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.”

— R.C. Sproul

103. “The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We’re saved by works, but they’re not our own.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

105. “Scratching people where they itch and addressing their ‘felt needs’ is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.”

— R.C. Sproul

106. “Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.”

— R.C. Sproul

107. “Sin is cosmic treason.”

— R.C. Sproul

108. “I’ll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.”

— R.C. Sproul

109. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

110. “We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy – – He is just as glorified by His justice.”

— R.C. Sproul

111. “Our joy is to come from the assurance that we have redemption in Christ. The greatest joy that a person can have is to know that his name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, that he is saved and will live forever with Christ.”

— R.C. Sproul

112. “Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.”

— R.C. Sproul

113. “If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.”

— R.C. Sproul

114. “God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.”

— R.C. Sproul

115. “At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.”

— R.C. Sproul

116. “Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.”

— R.C. Sproul

117. “We do not “find” God as a result of our search for him. We are found by him. The search for God does not end in conversion; it begins at conversion. It is the converted person who genuinely and sincerely seeks after God. Jonathan Edwards remarked that seeking after God is the main business of the Christian life.”

— R.C. Sproul

118. “The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.”

— R.C. Sproul

119. “Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.”

— R.C. Sproul

120. “When you enter the voting booth, don’t leave your Christianity in the parking lot.”

— R.C. Sproul

121. “To be a Christian is to be a theologian – a student of God and his will. The church is where believers should be nurtured in the practice of correct theology. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.”

— R.C. Sproul

122. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

123. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

124. “If God did not act first, no one would be saved.”

— R.C. Sproul

125. “Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.”

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126. “The resurrection was God the Father’s way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.”

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127. “Even if the budget is never balanced, even if the stock market crashes, even if food prices skyrocket, even if my child never recovers from her illness, even if I lose my job, and even if we lose our home – yet will I rejoice in the God of my salvation.”

— R.C. Sproul

128. “It’s not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It’s the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.”

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129. “Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”

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130. “Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.”

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131. “If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.”

— R.C. Sproul

132. “The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.”

— R.C. Sproul

133. “Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.”

— R.C. Sproul

134. “God’s grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.”

— R.C. Sproul

135. “The day of one’s birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father’s house.”

— R.C. Sproul

136. “Don’t ever ask God for justice-you might get it.”

— R.C. Sproul

137. “The Bible’s truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.”

— R.C. Sproul

138. “People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God’s perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.”

— R.C. Sproul

139. “It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

— R.C. Sproul

140. “To live in coram Deo is to live in the presence of God, being ruled by His authority for the glory of His name.”

— R.C. Sproul

141. “The life of faith is not just about believing that God exists; it is about believing God or trusting God.”

— R.C. Sproul

142. “We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.”

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143. “God’s graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.”

— R.C. Sproul

144. “Satan could make an “A” in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.”

— R.C. Sproul

145. “It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.”

— R.C. Sproul

146. “The God of popular religion is not holy.”

— R.C. Sproul

147. “God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.”

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148. “Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.”

— R.C. Sproul

149. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

150. “What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.”

— R.C. Sproul