R.C. Sproul Quotes

Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.

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

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.