Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Without God man has no reference point to define himself.”

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203. “What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful.”

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

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205. “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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206. “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.”

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207. “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.”

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208. “God says it, it is settled, whether we believe it or not. There is no higher court of appeal than the voice of God. So.”

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209. “The only reason why I’m a Christian is because I’m a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I’ve ever done.”

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210. “The world is filled with God’s glory. You can’t turn without bumping into it.”

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211. “God doesn’t need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.”

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212. “The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.”

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213. “Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.”

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214. “We’ve replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.”

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215. “The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.”

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216. “God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.”

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217. “A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.”

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218. “For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.”

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219. “Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not thereby delivered from all pain and misery. Indeed, as we shall see, we His people are called to participate in His suffering.”

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220. “For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.”

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221. “Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.”

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222. “To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.”

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223. “Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.”

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224. “We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.”

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225. “God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He’s not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He’s interested in godliness.”

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226. “To be spiritually dead is to be worldly. It is to buy into and follow slavishly the values and customs of the secular culture. Not only do the spiritually dead follow the course of this world, they follow “the prince of the power of the air.”

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227. “We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.”

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228. “How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t. Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him.”

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229. “The redeemed of God who are snatched from the flames by the hand of the Lord are still covered with ashes. We remain streaked with charcoal and blemished with soot. We are redeemed, but not sinless. Satan is quick to call attention to the dirt. He wants us to be more conscious of our sin than of God’s mercy.”

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230. “Philosophy was born in the ancient quest for ultimate reality, the reality that transcends the proximate and commonplace and that defines and explains the data of everyday experience.”

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231. “To be a saint means to be separated. But it means more than that. The saint also is to be involved in a vital process of sanctification. We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness. If we are justified, we must also be sanctified.”

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232. “No sinner has the right to say with impunity, ‘God you owe me grace.’ If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.”

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233. “Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.”

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234. “There’s probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.”

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235. “Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.”

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236. “Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.”

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237. “To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the “mind of Christ.” We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty.”

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238. “If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.”

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239. “Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.”

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240. “Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness.”

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241. “To reduce the demands of God’s law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one’s own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.”

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242. “Doctrine does matter.”

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243. “If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.”

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244. “The Spirit always communicates that He’s for you when He convicts you of your sin.”

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245. “If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God’s sake, speak up.”

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246. “Many thousands, if not millions, of believers can also testify how the Holy Spirit worked in their lives through the sharp, penetrating power of the Word. The Scriptures are absolutely key in the process by which the Spirit gives-and strengthens-the faith of Christians.”

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247. “When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.”

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248. “The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.”

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249. “The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.”

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250. “Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven’s sake, preach the Word!”

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