R. C. Sproul Quotes - Page 14

Sin is cosmic treason

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

It's a sin to bore people.

When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

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

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.

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Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.