R.C. Sproul Quotes

If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

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

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

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.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

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

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

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

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

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

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

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

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.