Top 380 R.C. Sproul Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.”

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352. “Foundational thinking cares about the difference between truth and falsehood because it cares about good and evil.”

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353. “I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.”

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354. “Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.”

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355. “The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.”

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356. “There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.”

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357. “Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?”

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358. “Only the justified person can be comfortable in the presence of a holy God.”

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359. “What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?”

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360. “Needless to say, the reign of our Lord is a tremendous benefit for those who love Him and follow Him. For this reason, it is clearly better for us that Jesus left than if He had stayed.”

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361. “Seek the kingdom. Seek righteousness. These are the priorities of the Christian life.”

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362. “Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.”

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363. “I’m afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.”

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364. “Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.”

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365. “When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, ‘You should start with The Holiness of God.’”

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366. “Christian pilgrims live in tents. They are seminomads. They are never so at home in this world that they completely settle in. Life is always a frontier for them. The water they drink is never stagnant.”

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367. “Just laws reflect what is right.”

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368. “There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.”

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369. “When we call things holy when they are not holy, we commit the sin of idolatry. We give to common things the respect, awe, worship, and adoration that belong only to God. To worship the creature instead of the Creator is the essence of idolatry.”

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

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371. “Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.”

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372. “Rebirth is instantaneous. Justification is instantaneous. But sanctification is a lifelong process. It involves a diligent struggle against a multitude of obstacles.”

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373. “When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don’t know because I don’t.”

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374. “Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there’s no such thing as sin?”

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375. “But we still must tremble before our God. He is still holy. Our trembling is the tremor of awe and veneration, not the trembling of the coward or the pagan frightened by the rustling of a leaf. Luther explained it this way: We are to fear God not with a servile fear like that of a prisoner before his tormentor but as children who do not wish to displease their beloved Father.”

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376. “Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher said, “Man is the supreme paradox of all creation.”

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377. “He killed Nadab and Abihu. He killed Uzzah. He commanded the slaughter of the Canaanites. It is as if He were saying, “Be careful. While you enjoy the benefits of My grace, don’t forget My justice. Don’t forget the gravity of sin. Remember that I am holy.”

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378. “When one is immersed in a Christian subculture that puts a great deal of stress on making decisions, responding to altar calls, and praying the sinner’s prayer, it is easy to miss this important point – making a decision to follow Jesus has never converted anyone. This is because it is not a decision that converts a person; it is the power of the Holy Spirit that does so.”

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379. “How awesome is this place!” This was Jacob’s response to being in the house of God. People do not normally feel that way in church. There is no sense of awe, no sense of being in the presence of One who makes us tremble. People in awe never complain that church is boring.”

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380. “It was St. Augustine who once prayed, “Thou halt made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it finds its rest in Thee.”

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381. “When human beings failed in obedience to the law of God, God did not just annihilate them. He gave them a promise of future redemption, and He covered their nakedness, which foreshadowed the ultimate covering of our spiritual nakedness that is accomplished by the garments of the righteousness of Christ.”

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382. “When we engage in the quest to understand God, it is theology. When our quest is limited to understanding how people react to theology, it is religion.”

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383. “This is the essence of idolatry: replacing the reality with a counterfeit.”

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384. “If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. If the Bible is the Word of God, not mere human speculation, and if God himself declares that there is such a thing as predestination, then it follows irresistibly that we must embrace some doctrine of predestination.”

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385. “When theonomy is abandoned for autonomy, the biblical description of that action is sin. It is the creature’s declaration of independence from his Creator.”

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386. “Before a person can make a choice that is pleasing to God, he must first have a desire to please God. Before we can find God, we must first desire to seek him. Before we can choose the good, we must first have a desire for the good. Before we can choose Christ, we must first have a desire for Christ. The sum and substance of the whole debate on predestination rests squarely at this point: Does fallen man, in and of himself, have a natural desire for Christ?”

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387. “God is working in us for his good pleasure. Paul does not say that God is working in us for our good pleasure.”

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388. “The Apostle Paul frequently admonishes and instructs Christians not to be quarrelsome, divisive, or combative. He extols the virtues of patience, charity, and tolerance. Yet when it came to the gospel itself, this same apostle was uncompromising.”

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389. “True Christians can have radical and serious falls but never total and final falls from grace.”

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390. “To me, there is nothing more comforting than knowing that there is a God of providence who is aware not only of every one of my transgressions but of every one of my tears, every one of my aches, and every one of my fears.”

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391. “That is intellectual madness. What are the chances that the universe was created by chance?”

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392. “That God allows a human being to treat me unjustly is just of God. While I may complain to God about the human, horizontal injustice I have suffered, I cannot rise up and accuse God of committing a vertical injustice by allowing the human injustice to befall me. God would be perfectly just to allow me to be thrown in prison for life for a crime I didn’t commit. I may be innocent before other people, but I am guilty before God.”

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393. “In thinking about fruitfulness, we must remember that we are not saved by our works. Rather, we are justified by faith alone. Yet we also remember that the magisterial Reformers of the sixteenth century, such as Martin Luther, said we are justified by faith alone but not by a faith that is alone.”

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394. “My purposes do not always include God’s good. I am a sinner.”

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395. “The more we are in the Word of God, the more the Spirit who inspired the Word and who illumines it for us will use the Word to confirm in our souls that we are truly His, that we are indeed among the children of God.”

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396. “Then God stooped to earth and carefully fashioned a piece of clay. He lifted it gently to His lips and breathed into it. The clay began to move. It began to think. It began to feel. It began to worship. It was alive and stamped with the image of its Creator.”

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397. “Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. JONATHAN EDWARDS.”

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