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“La eficacia estaba en el poder de Dios que residía detrás de los medios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué significa nacer de nuevo? (Preguntas Cruciales)

“A sacrament gives a dramatic sign that points beyond itself to some truth of redemption that is crucial to the life of the people of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Lord's Supper?

“Cuando alguien busca una pareja, debería buscar a alguien que enriquezca su vida, que añada a su propia auto-realización, y que al mismo tiempo resulte enriquecido por esa relación.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo conocer la voluntad de Dios?

“Thus, John is saying that Jesus did His miracles not for their own sake but to point the observer and the reader beyond them to something that was significant to Himself as the One who spoke”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“There was not one way of salvation in Israel and another way in the new covenant (Christian) community. Justification is by faith now; justification was by faith back then. The meritorious ground of salvation in the Old Testament was the merit of Christ, not the merit of bulls and goats.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“Como dije anteriormente, la fe no se trata de creer que existe un Dios. La fe es creerle a Dios. La fe es confiar en la fidelidad de Dios. Cuando soy fiel, estoy confiando en Alguien a quien considero perfectamente fiel.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“That’s who we are in our natural state. Does that concern you? The gap between the righteousness of God and the unrighteousness of His image bearers is a serious problem. God commands us to be perfect, and we are not perfect. What do we do about it?”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God" (Rom. 5:1-2).”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“These different uses of the words LORD and Lord indicate the care with which people communicated God’s holy nature. In some ways that is similar to my choosing to use capital letters when I use a pronoun to refer to God. Because God is unspeakably holy, I cannot bring myself to refer to Him as “him,” even though my younger readers may be bothered by what they perceive to be an outdated use of capital letters. To me it is a gesture of respect and awe for a holy God.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“In doing so, the church distinguished between God’s external righteousness and His internal righteousness. External righteousness refers to His behavior, His actions—what He does. It always flows out of and is in accord with His internal character. God’s behavior is contingent on no external law or force imposed on Him from without. It is determined by His own character. God acts according to what He is. In His nature, He is righteous, sovereign, and free. These concepts combine as the idea that God is most absolute.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“We are simply saying that we agree with Aristotle in the sense that there must be a first cause who is self-existent, pure being, and eternal. It is only a partial point in our knowledge of God, but it is a crucial one.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our behavior. A theory underlies our every moral action. We may not be able to articulate that theory or even be immediately conscious of it, but nothing manifests our value systems more sharply than our actions.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“born,”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Biblical Wisdom?

“La vida de fe no trata solo de creer que Dios existe; se trata de creerle a Dios o confiar en Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo tener gozo en mi vida?, Spanish Edition

“Was Paul unloving when he disputed daily in the marketplace about the things of God (Acts 17:17)? Was Jesus unloving when He contradicted the teaching of the Pharisees? Were the prophets of ancient Israel unloving when they rebuked and admonished the false prophets? Was Elijah unloving when he disputed with the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18)? I cannot imagine someone in the crowd on Mount Carmel that day saying: “You people can follow Elijah if you want to, but I’m not going to. He may have truth on his side, but he is not loving. Look what he did to these prophets of Baal. How unloving!” Contending for the truth of God is an act of love, not a sign of an absence of love. If we love God, if we love Christ, if we love the church, we must love the truth that defines the very essence of Christianity.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“If I thought even for one moment that a single molecule were running loose in the universe outside the control and domain of almighty God, I wouldn’t sleep tonight.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“pleasing to God. Churches that practice infant baptism believe that it is their duty to baptize infants, and in failing to do so they would be derelict in a responsibility. Those that refrain from infant”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The term “born-again Christian” is a redundancy. It is a kind of theological stuttering. If one is born again, then one is a Christian. If one is a Christian, then one is born again. There are no non-born-again Christians and no born-again non-Christians. To be reborn is to be born into Christ by the Holy Spirit. This is a prerequisite for the Christian life. It is also the genesis, the beginning of the Christian life.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“In The City of God Augustine says: “The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it.”
― R.C. Sproul, Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will

“Realmente necesitamos mover cielo y tierra para mantener la paz. No obstante, al mismo tiempo, se nos llama a ser fieles a la verdad del evangelio y la pureza de la iglesia.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la iglesia?

“Science involves the quest for knowledge. Any such quest, by necessity, involves some commitment to epistemology. The epistemology of irrationalism is fatal to all science because it makes knowledge of anything impossible. If a truth’s contrary can also be true, no truth about anything can possibly be known.”
― RC Sproul

“] But God said to him, b ‘Fool! z This night c your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, d whose will they be?’ 21[✞] So is the one e who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

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― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“I don't want us to miss the underlying assumption in this statement from Jesus there are degrees of wickedness. Not all sin is equally heinous, and in this case there was a greater and a lesser sin.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Wisdom”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Biblical Wisdom?

“had gone to heaven. Enoch was “translated” and Elijah was “taken up.” One could “ascend” a ladder (Jesus had told Nathanael that he would see angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man, and Jacob beheld a ladder in his midnight dream at Bethel) or one could “ascend” to Jerusalem, moving to a higher elevation from sea level. The term could be used figuratively to refer to the elevation of a king to his royal office. But no one ever had “ascended to heaven” in the sense in which Jesus was speaking. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Everything has a cause, and the ultimate cause, as we have seen, is God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?