R. C. Sproul Quotes - Page 11

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• Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

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  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

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• The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

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  Law, Needs, Judgment

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• It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

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  Feelings, Spirit, Holy

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• Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

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  Christian, Prayer, Optional

  R. C. Sproul, John MacArthur, John Piper, Joel Beeke, Steven J. Lawson (2015). “Let Us Pray: A Symposium on Prayer by Leading Preacher and Theologians”, p.9, The Northampton Press

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• When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

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  Stakes

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• Doctrine does matter.

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  Matter, Doe, Doctrine

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2015

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

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  Scripture

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• 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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  Hands, Long, People

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• We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

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  Determine

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• We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

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  Persevere, Priests, Intercession

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• The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

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  Hands, Dirt, Sin

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• The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

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  Providence, God Knows, Whole

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• I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!

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  Thinking, Christianity

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• At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

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  Finals, Judgment

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• The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

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  Believe, Issues, Believe In God

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• 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

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• The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

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  Heart, Honor, Depth

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today”, p.41, David C Cook

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• But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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  Blessing, Heaven, Grace

  R. C. Sproul (2003). “In the Presence of God: Devotional Readings on the Attributes of God”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

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  People, Hypocrisy, Faithful

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

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  Thinking, People, Generations

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2017

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• Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).

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  Would Be, Worship Service, Sensitive

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• 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.

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  Character, Essence, Giving

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• Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

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  Real, Long, Identity

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• Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

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  Christian, Church, Essentials

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• I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

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  Cold, Fingers, Retiring

  "Interview with R.C. Sproul on His Latest Book – Part 2". Interview with Alex Chediak, alexchediak.com. January 19, 2010.

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