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“ohn Wesley, the founder of Methodism, testified that his conversion experience occurred after he was already an ordained clergyman. He was at a meeting in Aldersgate Street in London, listening to a sermon from the book of Romans, and as he heard the words of Scripture-words he had heard many times before-he suddenly felt his heart "strangely warmed.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“The idea that God “always wills healing” has been a destructive distortion in the Christian community. The pastoral problems emanating from this are enormous.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Así que muchos de nosotros somos ateos prácticos. Puede que seamos teístas teóricos, pero nuestra vida delata una forma práctica de ateísmo en la medida que no vivimos con el fin de agradar a Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“hermeneutics, which refers to the proper rules of interpreting the Bible. One basic principle is that the implicit is always to be interpreted in light of the explicit, not vice versa.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“When Hume attacks miracles as violating natural law and the instances of conformity, he not only gets rid of miracles, he gets rid of anything unusual.”
― R.C. Sproul, Classical Apologetics

“En la Escritura se nos dice que es posible que, a causa de los pecados reiterados, las personas pierdan la capacidad de sonrojarse o avergonzarse. La Biblia habla a menudo del corazón endurecido, que hace que la persona ya no sienta remordimientos por su transgresión. Es peligroso que confiemos plenamente en que nuestros sentimientos de culpa nos revelen la realidad de nuestra culpa propiamente tal, porque es posible que aplaquemos las punzadas de la conciencia.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué puedo hacer con mi culpa?

“Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without the resurrection, we would be left with a dead Savior. Crucifixion and resurrection go together, each borrowing some of its value from the other. However, the story does not end with the empty tomb. To write finis there is to miss a climactic moment of redemptive history,”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“As Protestants, we say that justification is by faith alone. That little word by is critical to our understanding of how justification takes place. It does not mean that faith is meritorious and obligates God to save us. Rather, the word by indicates grammatically what we call the instrumental dative, which describes the means by which a thing comes to pass.
So, to use Aristotle's categories, faith is the instrumental cause of justification, according to the Protestant view.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Baptism?

“The word our signifies that the right to call God “Father” is not mine alone. It is a corporate privilege belonging to the entire body of Christ. When I pray, I do not come before God as an isolated individual, but as a member of a family, a community of saints.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“But when God makes a down payment and promises to finish the transaction, we need not worry about Him making the full payment.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Baptism?

“The problem, as history has demonstrated, is that when everyone owns everything, no one owns anything.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Think about Money?

“While we’re alive, we don’t retire from the work of God, but we do long for the day when we can retire into our final rest—when we can behold Jesus face to face, just as Simeon did.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Advent of Glory: 24 Devotions for Christmas

“En palabras simples, esto significa que la vida cristiana no debe estar marcada por la antipatía o una actitud amargada. Todos tenemos malos días, pero la característica básica de una personalidad cristiana es el gozo. Los cristianos deberíamos ser las personas más gozosas del mundo porque tenemos mucho por qué gozarnos.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo tener gozo en mi vida?

“El concepto central del arrepentimiento en el Antiguo Testamento puede condensarse en una palabra: conversión. Esta palabra se escucha frecuentemente en la jerga cristiana de hoy, y es el punto focal del llamado profético al arrepentimiento. Nadie nace biológicamente cristiano. Para hacerse cristiano, tiene que ocurrir algo a través de lo cual la persona es radicalmente transformada. Esto está vinculado con el concepto bíblico de metanoia, aquel cambio de mentalidad que no es el mero ajuste intelectual de un concepto, sino el vuelco de la vida en su totalidad. Para el profeta, el arrepentimiento no es un mero ritual religioso, sino que es esencial para la conversión del alma. Significa el cambio de la totalidad de nuestro ser.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

“speaking about unbelief based on insufficient evidence. To withhold”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Frenzy, the counterfeit of fervency, is a contrived attempt to simulate godly fervor. Those who deliberately manipulate
people's emotions are served warning here. There is something holy, something sovereign, about genuine spiritual fervor that cannot be manufactured artificially. It is easy to confuse frenzy and fervor, but the confusion is deadly.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“We are
debtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“The devil never would attempt to beget in persons a regard to that divine word which God has given to be the great and standing rule. . . . Would the spirit of error, in order to deceive men, beget in them a high opinion of the infallible rule, and incline them to think much of it, and be very conversant with it? . . . The devil has ever shown a mortal spite and hatred towards that holy book the Bible: he has done all in his power to extinguish that light. . . . He is engaged against the Bible, and hates every word in it.”
― R.C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture

“relevant to the marital relationship have such far-reaching effects on our lives. How a person feels about his”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“Nuestro gozo debe provenir de la seguridad de que tenemos redención en Cristo. El mayor gozo que una persona puede tener es saber que su nombre está escrito en el Libro de la Vida del Cordero, que es salva y vivirá por siempre con Cristo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo tener gozo en mi vida?

“Our modern worship needs the philosophy of the second glance, an ongoing attempt to make sure that all that we do in worship gatherings is to God’s glory, to His honor, and according to His will. May”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The church is called to be a critic of the state when the state fails to obey its mandate under God. For example, in the controversy over abortion, when the church is critical of the state with respect to the idea of abortion, people are angered and say, “The church is trying to impose its agenda on the state.” However, the primary reason that government exists is to protect, maintain, and support human life. When the church complains about the abortion laws in America, the church is not asking the state to be the church. The church is asking the state to be the state. It is simply asking the state to do its God-ordained job.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is the Relationship between Church and State?

“In the affirmation ofArticle III, the words "in its entirety" are significant. There are those who have claimed that the Bible contains revelation from God here and there, in specified places, but”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“The Bible says, "In the beginning God." The God we worship is the God who has always been. He alone can create beings, because He alone has the power of being. He is not nothing. He is not chance. He is pure Being, the One who has the power to be all by Himself. He alone is eternal. He alone has power over death. He alone can call worlds into being by fiat, by the power of His command. Such power is staggering, awesome. It is deserving of respect, of humble adoration.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida,”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“God creates a being, stamps His own image and likeness onto that being, and gives that person dominion over all of the earth—and then, day after day, that person lives a life of estrangement and disobedience to God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“The doctrine of inspiration declares that God enabled the human writers of Scripture to be agents of divine revelation, so that what they wrote was not only their writing but in a higher sense the very Word of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“When people listened to Christ or to the preaching of the Apostles, they would often respond by asking, “What should we do?” The answers assumed a similar form—“Believe in Christ,” “Believe and be baptized,” or “Repent and be baptized.” Since this concept of repentance is so central to the Apostolic preaching, it’s extremely important that we fully understand it.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“When sin is characterized as a crime, we see that Christ is the One Who actually comes under judgment in the drama of the atonement. He functions as the Substitute, the One Who stands in the place of the true criminals-you and me.
Christ, then, is the One Who made satisfaction. By His work on the cross, He satisfied the demands of God's justice with regard to our debt, our state of enmity, and our crime. In light of the facts of God's justice and our sinfulness, it is not difficult to see the absolute necessity of the atonement.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“La conciencia cristiana debe estar gobernada no meramente por lo socialmente aceptable, ni siquiera por lo que es legal para la ley del país, sino más bien por lo que Dios ordena.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo conocer la voluntad de Dios?