R. C. Sproul Quotes - Page 3

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.