R. C. Sproul Quotes - Page 5

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• Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

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  Christian, Kingdoms, Speak

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• God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

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  Serious, Worship

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• Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

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  Jesus, Love Is, Men

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.68, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

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  Heart, Burning, Empty

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• God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

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  God, Christian, Not Interested

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• The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

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  Christian, Father, Son

  Twitter post from Oct 19, 2015

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• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

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  Sovereign, Sin, Authority

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

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  Fall, Grace, Limits

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.95, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

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  Christian, Father, School

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• The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

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  Men, Slavery, Irony

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

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  Faithful, Tasks, Steps

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• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

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  God, Faith, Christian

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• We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

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  Mother, Baby, Church

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• In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

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  Capacity To Love, Incredibles, Mercy

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2016

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• In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

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  Exercise, Age, Church

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• A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

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  Wrath, Idols, Stones

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

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• God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

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  Humanity, Deities, Human Nature

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• If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

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  Sovereign, Ifs

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.26, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

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  Jesus, Perfect, Christ

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016

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• We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

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  Culture, Christianity, Claims

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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• Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

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  Men, Without God

  R.C. Sproul (2016). “Reason to Believe: A Response to Common Objections to Christianity”, p.75, Zondervan

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• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

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  Waste, Stewardship, Sin

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• We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

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  Spiritual, Father, Son

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• The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

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  People, Church, Boring

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• What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

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  God, Christian, Differences

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