R.C. Sproul Quotes

Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

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

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

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

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.

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

The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

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

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

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.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

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

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

It's a sin to bore people.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.