Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.”

— R.C. Sproul

302. “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?”

— R.C. Sproul

303. “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.”

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304. “I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.”

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305. “Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.”

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306. “No somos libres para hacer lo que a nosotros nos parezca bien. Estamos llamados hacer lo que es bueno delante de Dios.”

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307. “We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.”

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308. “The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.”

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309. “A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.”

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310. “The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.”

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311. “Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.”

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312. “No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God’s only begotten Son.”

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313. “We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.”

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

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315. “You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.”

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316. “Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.”

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317. “I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.”

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318. “The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.”

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319. “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.”

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320. “Do you not know that God dwells in light inaccessible? We weak and ignorant creatures want to probe and understand the incomprehensible majesty of the unfathomable light of the wonder of God. We approach; we prepare ourselves to approach. What wonder then that his majesty overpowers us and shatters!”13.”

— R.C. Sproul

321. “God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.”

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322. “Grace and mercy are never deserved.”

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323. “Many still look at the kingdom of God as something in the unfulfilled future. But the kingdom has begun. Why? Because the King has been enthroned.”

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324. “We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.”

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325. “If Paul does not mean that all who are called are justified, the only alternative would be that some who are called are justified. If we supply the word some instead of the word all here, then we must supply it throughout the Golden Chain. Then it would read like this: Some of those he foreknew, he also predestined. Some of those he predestined, he also called. Some of those he called, these he also justified. Some of those he justified, he also glorified.”

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326. “It distresses me somewhat to hear a person say, “I am a born-again Christian.” What’s wrong with such a statement? Well, what other kind of Christian is there? If rebirth is absolutely essential in order to get into the kingdom of God, as Jesus said it is, there cannot be such a thing as a non-born-again Christian. To say “born-again Christian” is like saying “Christian Christian.” It’s a redundancy, a kind of theological stuttering.”

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327. “What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even more free. This means that our freedom can never limit God’s sovereignty.”

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328. “The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.”

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329. “The apostle said he was “hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed.” He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering. Paul freely admitted the pressure he experienced.”

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330. “Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.”

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331. “The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.”

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332. “We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest’s intercession.”

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333. “What better evidence could there be of a man’s salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?”

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334. “It’s a sin to bore people.”

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335. “We may go to the house of mirth, to a party, where we have fun, kick back, have a good time, and enjoy entertainment. Parties are not all that serious; we don’t have to be contemplative in order to enjoy ourselves there. Certainly there is a time to laugh, a time to dance, a time to celebrate-a time to have a party. But how much do we learn in those circumstances? Times of mirth do very little for the good of our souls.”

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336. “I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.”

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337. “Far from God seeking to destroy the “self” as many distortions of Christianity would claim, God redeems the self. He heals the self so that it may be useful and fulfilled in the mission to which the person is called.”

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338. “We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.”

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339. “Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.”

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340. “Dr. Boice’s commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.”

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341. “We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.”

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342. “The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.”

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343. “When Adolf Hitler came to power, the Nazis were not content to find a “final solution” for Jews and Gypsies. They also sought to eliminate intellectuals whose ideas were at odds with the “values” of the Third Reich. My friend was removed from his position. When he spoke out against the Nazis, his wife and all but one of his children were arrested and executed. He escaped from Germany with his young daughter.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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345. “It is precisely the presence and help of Christ in times of suffering that makes it possible for us to stand up under pressure.”

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

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347. “To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.”

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348. “Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.”

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349. “If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.”

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350. “Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted.”

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