R. C. Sproul Quotes About Sinners

Quotes about: Sinners

• Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving, Joy, Sin

• We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sin, Sinner

  Twitter post from Oct 3, 2017

• Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Fallen, Inclination

• The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Fleeing, Benefits

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

• The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christ, Righteousness, Justify

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

• 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.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Decision, Despair

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.176, Hendrickson Publishers

• For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

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  Christian, Organization, Church

• Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Sin, Hung

• Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.

  R. C. Sproul

  Data, Understanding, Mind

• 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

• No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

  R. C. Sproul

  Character, Essence, Giving

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, People, Generations

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2017

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