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

Love God? Sometimes I hate Him. This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther. — R.C. Sproul

The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim. — R.C. Sproul

Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship. — R.C. Sproul

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

Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida, — R.C. Sproul

If God did not act first, no one would be saved. — R.C. Sproul

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

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

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me". — R.C. Sproul

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life. — R.C. Sproul

It's easy to be an educated fool. — R.C. Sproul

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar. — R.C. Sproul

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy. — R.C. Sproul

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God. — R.C. Sproul

Now I know who the Holy Spirit is. — R.C. Sproul

Just laws reflect what is right. — R.C. Sproul

Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God. — R.C. Sproul

Could not God originally have decreed that no one ever would be able to sin, thus — R.C. Sproul

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed. — R.C. Sproul

This: If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like? — R.C. Sproul

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity. — R.C. Sproul

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

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God. — R.C. Sproul

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life. — R.C. Sproul

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection. — R.C. Sproul

be more important than the cross? Without it we have no atonement, no redemption. Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without — R.C. Sproul

God is both Just and the Justifier. — R.C. Sproul

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion. — R.C. Sproul

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all. — R.C. Sproul

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

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned. — R.C. Sproul

Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God. — R.C. Sproul

Whatever else abortion does, it does not promote the life of the unborn child. — R.C. Sproul

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees. — R.C. Sproul

My purposes do not always include God's good. I am a sinner. — R.C. Sproul

Just so we're clear the words "free will" are not actually in the Bible. Predestination, on the other hand ... — R.C. Sproul Jr.

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

No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth. — R.C. Sproul

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance. — R.C. Sproul

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

The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it. — R.C. Sproul

If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. — R.C. Sproul

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God. — R.C. Sproul

The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine. — R.C. Sproul

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture. — R.C. Sproul

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil. — R.C. Sproul

With winsomeness and clarity this great tenet in witness to which we are gladly uniting.
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I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word. — R.C. Sproul

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk. — R.C. Sproul

Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness. — R.C. Sproul

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it? — R.C. Sproul

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. — R.C. Sproul

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself. — R.C. Sproul

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means "anointed." It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated "messiah." When Jesus is called — R.C. Sproul

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

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men. — R.C. Sproul

If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God. — R.C. Sproul

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don't know about him. — R.C. Sproul

Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted. — R.C. Sproul

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God. — R.C. Sproul

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

Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe. — R.C. Sproul

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign. — R.C. Sproul

The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it's meant also to be sung. — R.C. Sproul

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

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

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. — R.C. Sproul

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required. — R.C. Sproul

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God. — R.C. Sproul

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R.C. Sproul

If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science. — R.C. Sproul

the Holy Spirit is a person, not a thing. — R.C. Sproul

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie. — R.C. Sproul

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

But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life. — R.C. Sproul

Jacob's Ladder represents a bridge between Jacob's secular mindset to make it in this world and the reality of Heavenly things. — R.C. Sproul

The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much — R.C. Sproul

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ. — R.C. Sproul

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. — R.C. Sproul

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

When God says something, the argument is over. — R.C. Sproul

'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards. — R.C. Sproul

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? (Rom. 8:33-34a). — R.C. Sproul

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice. — R.C. Sproul

You deserve so much better than me, but that doesn't change the fact that I still want to be with you. — Janna Sproul

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. — R.C. Sproul

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness. — R.C. Sproul

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it. — R.C. Sproul

The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees. — R.C. Sproul

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

The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?" — R.C. Sproul

Doctrine does matter. — R.C. Sproul

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