R.C. Sproul > Quotes

“x The glory that you have given me y I have given to them, t that they may be one even as we are one, 23[✞] z I in them and you in me, a that they may become perfectly one, b so that the world may know that you sent me and c loved them even as d you loved me.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“So, if we would be joyful, we need to learn to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. But we cannot do that unless we somehow are able to escape from a life in which we care only about ourselves.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Have Joy In My Life?

“A medida que luchamos en la vida cristiana, a veces lidiamos con nuestra seguridad en Cristo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Se puede perder la salvación?

“What is true of Peter is true of all of us: we fall in private before we ever fall in public.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Worship is not an arena for open experimentation. If we “worship” by doing what we enjoy, rather than by doing what is pleasing to God, our worship will gravitate toward idolatry. It is our duty, as much as possible, to learn what true worship is supposed to be like.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“The world is filled with God’s glory. You can’t turn without bumping into it.”
― R.C. Sproul

“62). Jesus warns those who have come out of false beliefs and embraced the faith not to look back.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Lose My Salvation?

“The only thing that qualifies a person to be a minister in the name of Christ is that that person has experienced forgiveness and wants to tell of it to others.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“No es solo cuestión de “hacer lo correcto”, sino de discernir qué”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?

“Sometimes we struggle to grasp the biblical view of joy because of the way it is defined and described in Western culture today. In particular, we often confuse joy with happiness. In the Beatitudes (Matt. 5:3–11), according to the traditional translations, Jesus said: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.… Blessed are those who mourn.… Blessed are the meek …” (vv. 3–5, emphasis added), and so on. Sometimes, however, translators adopt the modern vernacular and tell us Jesus said happy rather than blessed. I always cringe a little when I see that, not because I am opposed to happiness, but because the word happy in our culture has been sentimentalized and trivialized.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Have Joy In My Life?

“En la Institución de la religión cristiana, Juan Calvino hace algunas profundas observaciones respecto a la oración:   Alguien”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“We fail to realize that in even the slightest sins we commit, such as little white lies and other peccadilloes, we are violating the law of the Creator of the universe. In the smallest sin we defy God’s right to rule and to reign over His creation. Instead, we seek to usurp for ourselves the authority and the power that belong properly to God. Even the slightest sin does violence to His holiness, to His glory, and to His righteousness. Every sin, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is truly an act of treason against the cosmic King.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“them incognito. They presumed to inform Jesus about the events of the crucifixion and showed obvious impatience with His apparent ignorance of the matters. When they related the report of the women concerning the resurrection, Christ rebuked them:
"O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
When the two had their eyes opened”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“It is the prerogative of the theologian to make fine distinctions; that is what theology is about.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“So there is a link in the New Testament between faith and seeing, and yet the author of Hebrews describes faith as the conviction of things not seen.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“12[✞] For what have I to do with judging o outsiders? p Is it not those inside the church 2 whom you are to judge? 13[✞] God judges 3 those outside. q “Purge the evil person from among you.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“Regeneration does not take place in stages. It is instantaneous. It is accomplished by one touch of the Holy Spirit on our souls. It is a sovereign work, a thoroughly effective work accomplished by the immediate power of the omnipotence of God. Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death. Only God can quicken the human soul.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“hands sticky from the paste. The story is told of the vagrant who knocked at the farmer’s door and politely inquired about employment as a handyman. The farmer cautiously put the man to work on a trial basis to measure his skill. The first task was to split logs”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“concerning”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“How then shall we worship? To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He, and He alone, decrees. No church dare replace the chancel with a stage. Stages are built for performance; chancels are constructed for worship. We must work, and work hard, to remove the shadows we have placed over the glory of God, that God’s people may be renewed by basking in His divine splendor and brilliant glory. Nothing else will do.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“These "prophets of doom" point out that man's destructive capability increased from 1945 to 1960 by the same ratio as it did from the primitive weapons of the Stone Age to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The thawing”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“of a total of 268) affixed their signatures to the Nineteen Articles.
It was indicated that the Draft Committee would meet within the year to review and, if necessary, revise the statement.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“La respuesta a la culpa siempre es el perdón. Lo único que conozco que puede curar una culpa real es el perdón real”.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué puedo hacer con mi culpa?

“It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“In the ancient world, Greeks and Romans supported abortion and infanticide, but the Jewish and Christian communities did not.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“I remember the story of a distraught father who was deeply grieved by the death of his son. He went to see his pastor, and in his bewildered anger he asked, "Where was God when my son died?" The pastor replied with a calm spirit, "The same place He was when His Son died.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“We affirm that the Holy Scriptures are to be received as the authoritative Word of God. We deny that the Scriptures receive their authority from the church, tradition, or any other human source.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“The basic stance of modern America is not that we owe God but that He owes us. He owes us a good and happy life, where nothing ever goes wrong. We don’t really grasp what happened at the cross or what Christianity is all about. We say, “Forgive us our debts,” but we do not really understand the extent of that debt. Every time we sin, our debt increases. The Lord Jesus sacrificed Himself and satisfied the justice of His Father on the cross for His own glory, and for the benefit of the elect.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“If He’s not perfect, then He won’t be bothered by imperfections in you. Or, of course, you can deny the existence of God altogether.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?