R. C. Sproul Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Idols, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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

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  Hands, Punishment, Perfect

• When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

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  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.94, Hendrickson Publishers

• The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

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  Jesus, Men, Innocent Man

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.89, Hendrickson Publishers

• It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

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  Justice, Atonement, Virtue

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

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  Differences, Justice, Definitions

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

• 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.

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  Jesus, Two, Justice

• 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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  Thinking, Talking, Justice

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

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  Father, Justice, Would Be

• The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Father, Son, Sacrifice

• We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Justice, Mercy

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