Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.”

— R.C. Sproul

152. “Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God’s existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

155. “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

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

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

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158. “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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159. “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

160. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

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165. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

166. “In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.”

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167. “To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive.”

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168. “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

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

— R.C. Sproul

170. “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

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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183. “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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184. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

185. “The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes what He starts. He does not abort His handiwork in the middle of its creation. He does not leave us staring at walking trees.”

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186. “We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.”

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187. “God’s grace is resistible in the sense that we can and do resist it. It is irresistible in the sense that it achieves its purpose. It brings about God’s desired effect.”

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188. “God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.”

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

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190. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

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193. “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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194. “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

195. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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198. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul