Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

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

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207. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

208. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

209. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

210. “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

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

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212. “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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213. “As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”

— R.C. Sproul

214. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

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

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218. “If God’s sovereignty is restricted by man’s freedom, then God is not sovereign; man is sovereign.”

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219. “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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220. “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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221. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

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

— R.C. Sproul

225. “Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.”

— R.C. Sproul

226. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

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

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231. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

232. “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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233. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

234. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

235. “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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236. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

237. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

238. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

239. “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.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

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

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243. “The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.”

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

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

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

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248. “Doctrine does matter.”

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249. “At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.”

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

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