Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.”

— R.C. Sproul

152. “Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.”

— R.C. Sproul

153. “The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.”

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154. “We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.”

— R.C. Sproul

155. “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

156. “We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.”

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157. “Modern man has lost any sense of God’s nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.”

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158. “Sanctification is a process. It is a gradual process. Run for your life from those who promise you instant sanctification.”

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159. “Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.”

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160. “Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.”

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

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162. “When God says something, the argument is over.”

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163. “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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164. “To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive.”

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165. “If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.”

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166. “If God ceased to exist, the universe would perish with Him, because God not only has created everything, He sustains everything. We are dependent on Him, not only for our origin, but also for our continuing existence.”

— R.C. Sproul

167. “The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.”

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168. “It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy...”

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169. “One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.”

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170. “If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, “My bride never talks to me”.”

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171. “The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.”

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172. “I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring, but I know that God knows what tomorrow is going to bring. So if God promises that tomorrow will bring something, and if I trust God for tomorrow, I have faith in something I have not yet seen.”

— R.C. Sproul

173. “When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.”

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

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175. “The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.”

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176. “It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.”

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177. “This little expression, ‘It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere,’ is a monstrous lie.”

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178. “The call to repentance is a call to return, a call to go back home.”

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179. “We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.”

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180. “Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.”

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181. “The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.”

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182. “It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.”

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183. “If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don’t believe in God.”

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184. “The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.”

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185. “The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.”

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186. “The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.”

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187. “A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.”

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188. “Love God? Sometimes I hate Him.” This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther.”

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189. “For the Christian, there can be joy in the midst of suffering, joy that transcends the pain of the moment. But we don’t really understand the grounds for this joy in the house of mirth. We discover it in the house of mourning. It is in weeping that we learn to contemplate the goodness of God. It is in mourning that we discover the peace of God that passes understanding.”

— R.C. Sproul

190. “There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.”

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191. “Wealth is not wisdom’s goal, but is often wisdom’s reward.”

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192. “God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.”

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193. “Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.”

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194. “The purpose of theology is not to tickle our intellects but to instruct us in the ways of God, so that we can grow up into maturity and fullness of obedience to Him. That is why we engage in theology.”

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195. “The ancient maxim still applies: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” To any serious thinker, and especially to the professing Christian, an unexamined life is not an option.”

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196. “God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.”

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197. “One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.”

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198. “Without God man has no reference point to define himself.”

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199. “It’s because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.”

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200. “When we find ourselves depressed, down, irritated, annoyed, or otherwise unhappy, we need to return to the source of our joy, and then we will see those circumstances that are sapping our joy in perspective. The circumstances of this life will pale into insignificance when compared to that which we have received from God.”

— R.C. Sproul