Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.”

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303. “The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.”

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304. “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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305. “The work of perfecting our spiritual state is called glorification. Glorification does not take place in this life.”

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

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307. “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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308. “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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309. “As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.”

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

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311. “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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312. “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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313. “Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.”

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

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315. “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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316. “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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317. “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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318. “The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.”

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

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

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322. “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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323. “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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324. “The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.”

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

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

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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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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332. “Grace and mercy are never deserved.”

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

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334. “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.”

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335. “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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336. “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.”

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337. “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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338. “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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339. “The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.”

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

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342. “It’s a sin to bore people.”

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

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

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

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348. “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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349. “We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.”

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

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