R.C. Sproul Quotes

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

When God says something, the argument is over.

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

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.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

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

Right now counts forever.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

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

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

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

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

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

God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

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