R. C. Sproul Quotes - Page 6

Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.