R. C. Sproul Quotes

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

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

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.

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

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

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

The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

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

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

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

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

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

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

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

Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

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.

The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

When God says something, the argument is over.

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

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

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

Right now counts forever.