R. C. Sproul Quotes about Jesus

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

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.

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

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

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

There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

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.

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

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

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 gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.

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