Quotes by R.C. Sproul
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) — Theologe, Pastor, Apologet, Bestsellerautor · evangelisch-reformiert / presbyterianisch · USA
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) war ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Theologe, Pastor und Autor, der über das von ihm gegründete Lehrwerk Ligonier Ministries in Florida wirkte. Er profilierte sich als prominenter Vertreter des Calvinismus, betonte die absolute Heiligkeit Gottes sowie die Irrtumslosigkeit der Schrift und lehnte theologische Annäherungen an den Katholizismus entschieden ab. Für Bibelleser bietet er einen verständlichen Zugang zu historisch-reformatorischer Dogmatik, stößt jedoch mit seiner kompromisslosen Erwählungslehre und seinem Cessationismus außerhalb konservativ-reformierter Kreise auf Kritik.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Love, Church & Congregation, The Bible & the Word of God, Wisdom & Understanding, Humility & Pride
Quotes by R.C. Sproul
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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Worship isn’t a means to an end, but the end of all means
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To believe that God grants whatever we declare is not prayer; it is magic.
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But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God’s crowning His own gifts.
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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.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us.
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[Obedience] is not to be done slavishly, out of servile fear or out of some rigid, stoical desire for rule-keeping, but rather from a profound desire to express our love for the Father.
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It is easier and much less painful to criticize the Bible than to allow the Bible to criticize us.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we should believe in God, but whether we really believe the God in whom we believe.
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The first negative judgment we find in Holy Writ is a judgment on loneliness. God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.”
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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The grand paradox or supreme irony of the Christian faith is that we are saved both by God and from God.
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Rich people are greedy for the same reason poor people are greedy, because they are people. Gratitude, not poverty, cures greed.
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Isn’t it amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people – for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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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.
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To be sure, it is much easier to be loving if you’re in love, but being in love is not intrinsically necessary to being loving – else the Great Commandment is a farce.
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We do not jettison worship for the sake of evangelism, but evangelize for the sake of the worship.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
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If I don't like something in the Bible, the problem is not with the Bible. The problem is with me.
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When we seek to pit God’s law against His love we show ourselves ignorant of both.
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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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The church has been established by Christ to be an army…(but) armies, in order to be effective, must be very sensitive in caring for their wounded… There is always a major work to be done within the church in terms of ministering to the needs of the people.
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To demand from others what the Spirit Himself patiently endures is to exalt ourselves above God.
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My kin are those who have been bought by the blood of the Lamb. They are my brothers and my sisters, even if they root for the wrong football team. My calling is to love them like family, for they are family. They, like me, have been born a second time, born into the family of God. We share a common Father, we share a common mother, the church, and we share a common brother, Jesus our Lord.
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Those who can rest while still exercising dominion are not only more productive, but more rested.
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Only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree. Only once is a characteristic of God mentioned three times in succession. The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy. Not that He is merely holy, or even holy, holy. He is holy, holy, holy. The Bible never says that God is love, love, love; or mercy, mercy, mercy; or wrath, wrath, wrath; or justice, justice, justice. It does say that he is holy, holy, holy, that the whole earth is full of His glory.
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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
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Throughout the ages the church has understood that the most significant manifestation of true faith is love. Faith without love is not faith, only speculation or knowledge or mere intellectual assent. The fruit of authentic faith is always love.
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Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads.
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You can’t open your eyes in this universe without seeing a theater of divine revelation.
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How can the person who has committed suicide repent? Once they have committed the sin, it is too late for them to repent. This concern, I believe, has its roots in Roman Catholic theology. We do not live our lives in a constant race to stay ahead of the game in terms of our repentance. We do not, when we die, have forgiveness for all our sins, save those we commit after our last confession. When we embrace the finished work of Christ, when we place our hope in Him, all our sins, past, present and future are forgiven.
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In the New Testament, love is more of a verb than a noun. It has more to do with acting than with feeling. The call to love is not so much a call to a certain state of feeling as it is to a quality of action.
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It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
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Perhaps the reason you feel guilty is because you are guilty. The answer to your guilt problem is not rationalization or self-justification, but forgiveness. The price of forgiveness is repentance. Without it there is no forgiveness and no relief from the reality of guilt.
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The law of God was not designed by a capricious tyrant in order to keep his people miserable.
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The visible church may be distressingly and sorely fractured and fragmented into all different kinds of denominations and groups, but the invisible church is the true body of Christ. Everyone who is in Christ, and in whom Christ dwells, is a member of this one universal church.
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We worry so much that we worry about what we’ll worry about when we get to heaven.
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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.
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