R.C. Sproul > Quotes

“pronounce that word, and that inability gave them away (Judg. 12:5–6). That password has become a term for a test word by which someone’s true”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“. The only difference between the kingdom today and the kingdom that we will know in the future is its visibility. Jesus is King right now. He holds the highest governmental office in the universe because He has been elevated to that position by God, which is at the heart of the Apostles’ Creed: “[He] suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried…. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” To be at the right hand of God is to be in the position of authority, by which He rules not just the church but also the world. That is why the church cries, “Hallelujah!” Our Messiah is not only our Prophet and Priest but also our King.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“But if people understood that there is a holy God and that sin is an offense against that holy God, they would break down the doors of our churches and ask, “What must I do to be saved?”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“Scripture, rev. ed. (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2009), provides a layman’s guide to the fundamental principles of how to interpret the Bible in such a way as to avoid misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or distortion of the Word of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“Where Adam collapsed, Jesus conquered. Where Adam compromised, Jesus refused to negotiate. Where Adam's trust in God faltered, Jesus' never wavered. The second Adam triumphed for Himself and for us.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“What we tend to assume is this: If God is merciful to five, He must be equally merciful to the other five. Why? He is never obligated to be merciful.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“We affirm that the written Word in its entirety is revelation given by God. We deny that the Bible is merely a witness to revelation, or only becomes revelation in encounter, or depends on the responses of men for its validity.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“acusa. La conciencia es la herramienta que Dios el Espíritu Santo usa para inculparnos, llevarnos al arrepentimiento, y recibir la sanidad del perdón que fluye del evangelio.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo puedo desarrollar una conciencia cristiana?

“The sin of mankind is in refusing to acknowledge the knowledge they have. They act against the truth that God reveals and they clearly receive.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“faith is not believing that there is a God. Faith is believing God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“t the heart of Christian ethics is the conviction that our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right is divine revelation.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“The things they see as unnecessary extras, the accretions of myth and legend, are excised by the scissors to expose the real Jesus. It seems so scientific, but it is all done with mirrors. The magician's art leaves us with the portrait of Rudolf Bultmann or John A. T. Robinson, and again the real Jesus is obscured. By preserving a modicum of New Testament data, we think we have avoided subjectivity. However, the result is the same-a Jesus shaped by the bias of the scholar wielding the scissors and getting”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“What finally swung the debate regarding Hebrews was the argument that Paul was its author. The church in the early centuries believed that Paul was the author of Hebrews, and that landed the epistle in the canon. Ironically, there are few scholars today who believe that Paul wrote it, but there are even fewer who would deny that it belongs in the canon.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“Hebreos dice que la fe es la prueba de lo que no se ve. La prueba es tangible. La prueba es algo que podemos conocer a través de nuestros cinco sentidos. La prueba es lo que los oficiales de policía investigan y tratan de reunir en una escena del crimen: huellas dactilares, indicios de restos de pólvora, prendas abandonadas, y todo lo demás.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“The denial in Article XIX is very important. The framers of the confession are saying unambiguously that confession of belief in the inerrancy of Scripture is not an element of the Christian faith essential for salvation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“we can safely conclude that God ordained that Job’s camels be stolen. That was God’s providential plan. But God’s purpose was to vindicate Job from the unrighteous accusations of Satan, as well as to vindicate His own holiness.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“The beauty of worship is never to be divorced from the truth of worship.”
― Sproul, R.C.

“that you are in a state of grace that cannot be lost? Those who argue against the doctrine of eternal security say Paul was here clearly denying such a teaching and warning against it. Since it hardly seems likely that Paul would warn against the possibility of such a fall if indeed such a fall were manifestly impossible,”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Lose My Salvation?

“Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“The pilgrimage of the Christian life is a pilgrimage of faith. It begins when God creates faith in our hearts. In the first stage of our Christian experience, we embrace Christ and trust Him for our redemption, but the whole pilgrimage of the Christian is rooted and grounded in that
confidence, that trust. The whole process is defined by living in faith”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Material in this book has previously been published in Everyone’s a Theologian (2014). Some material in this book has previously been published as Explaining Inerrancy: A Commentary (1980) and as”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“God vindicates His people, and He vindicates them in the presence of those who have falsely accused them. In essence, David said, “Not only does He prepare a table before me, but He prepares this table and invites me to His table publicly.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Lord's Supper?

“with no known protest is a further indication that the acceptability of giving infant children the covenant sign was simply assumed by the early church. It seems that infant baptism was”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Baptism?

“We often hear that people don’t like to be in the presence of Christians because Christians manifest a smug, self-righteous attitude or a goody-two-shoes, holier-than-thou attitude. But this should not be the case. Christians have nothing to be smug about; we are not righteous people trying to correct the unrighteous. As one preacher said, “Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“What is the goal of the Christian life? It is godliness born of obedience to Christ. Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“International Council on Biblical Inerrancy was a California-based organization from 1977 to 1987.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Puesto que Dios posee honor infinito, majestad infinita, y santidad infinita, el más leve pecado tiene consecuencias infinitas.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“from all other creatures. Jesus is called the monogenes, the "only begotten" of the Father. There is a sense in which Jesus and Jesus alone is begotten of the”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“the biblical King both reigns and rules. And He carries out His rule not by referendum but by His personal sovereignty. AN”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“True prayer presupposes an attitude of humble submission and adoration to the Almighty God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?