Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.”

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

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253. “Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.”

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254. “To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.”

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255. “We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.”

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256. “Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion?”

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257. “Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.”

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258. “If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.”

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259. “But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God’s crowning His own gifts.”

— R.C. Sproul

260. “The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it’s possession.”

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261. “The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.”

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262. “The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.”

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263. “We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.”

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264. “The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.”

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265. “If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that says, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.” The secret to happiness is found in obedience to God. How can we be happy if we are not obedient? How can we be obedient if we do not know what it is we are to obey? Thus the top and the tail of it is that happiness cannot be fully discovered as long as we remain ignorant of God’s Word.”

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266. “I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!”

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267. “Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means “anointed.” It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated “messiah.” When Jesus is called.”

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268. “The Christian formula for the Trinity – God is one essence in three persons – may seem to be contradictory because we are accustomed to seeing one being as one person. We cannot conceive of how one being could be contained in three persons and still be only one being. To that extent, the doctrine of the Trinity in this formulation is mysterious; it boggles the mind to think of a being who is absolutely one in His essence yet three in person.”

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269. “We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory – full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan’s. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.”

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270. “Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.”

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

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272. “Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.”

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273. “Since joy is a fruit of the Spirit, our sanctification is displayed not only by our love, peace, patience, kindness, and so forth, but by our joy.”

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274. “Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.”

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275. “We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are ‘justified by death’ and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.”

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276. “People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ’s atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity’s estrangement from our Creator.”

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277. “The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God’s judgment in our place.”

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278. “If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.”

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279. “Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.”

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280. “He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.”

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281. “There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden...”

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282. “No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.”

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283. “We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.”

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284. “I get irritated when I hear preachers say, “Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over.” That’s just simply a lie.”

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285. “If God is not sovereign, God is not God.”

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286. “Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.”

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287. “We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say ‘woe is me!’”

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288. “We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.”

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289. “God’s kingdom will never come where His name is not considered holy.”

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290. “If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.”

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291. “I cannot read God’s mind, however I can read God’s Word.”

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292. “To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.”

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293. “I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.”

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294. “Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.”

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295. “If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.”

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296. “Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.”

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297. “We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.”

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298. “By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.”

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299. “In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?”

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300. “Everything we learn – economics, philosophy, biology, mathematics – has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. That is why, in the Middle Ages, theology was called “the queen of the sciences” and philosophy “her handmaiden.” Today the queen has been deposed from her throne and, in many cases, driven into exile, and a supplanter now reigns. We have replaced theology with religion.”

— R.C. Sproul