R. C. Sproul Quotes - Page 11

Doctrine does matter.

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

The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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

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

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!

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

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

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

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.

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.

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

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

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