Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 4 of 8

151. “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

152. “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

153. “If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

155. “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

156. “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

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

160. “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

161. “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

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

168. “If to secure our redemption Christ only needed to make an atonement for us, he could have come down from heaven and gone directly to the cross. But he also had to fulfill all righteousness by submitting at every point to the law of God. By his sinless life he achieved positive merit, which merit is imputed to all who put their faith in him. Christ not only died for us but he lived for us as well.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

171. “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

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. “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

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

186. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

188. “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

189. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

190. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

194. “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

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

197. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

198. “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

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.”

— R.C. Sproul

200. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul