R.C. Sproul Quotes

By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

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.

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

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.

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.

Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.