R.C. Sproul

Quotes

• “We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wante...”
• “I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by f...”
• “[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken....”
• “I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible...”
• “Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this comm...”
• “The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whim...”
• “It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place the...”
• “The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of ...”
• “The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it’s too drafty in church. It is that peopl...”
• “The redeemed of God who are snatched from the flames by the hand of the Lord are still covered with ashes. We remain str...”
• “The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocri...”
• “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 day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can eve...”
• “There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ sa...”
• “I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it w...”
• “The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the...”
• “If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have n...”
• “Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually...”
• “Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for...”
• “Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is dis...”
• “If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what ki...”
• “We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus rai...”
• “I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are ...”
• “If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.”
• “At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.”
• “It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.”
• “Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”
• “The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.”
• “The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust.”
• “Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.”
• “I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.”