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“Podemos estar seguros de que ser culpables de pecado no nos descalifica del privilegio de venir a la presencia de Dios. El salmista no está hablando de cometer pecado, sino de permitirlo. Los puritanos hablaban del concepto de permitir el pecado. No es tanto la victoria sobre el pecado lo que tenemos que mirar como la batalla misma. Estamos en una batalla constante contra el pecado, y nunca resultamos ilesos. Una de las señales del verdadero cristiano es que nunca cesa de luchar. No siempre gana, aunque ganará la batalla definitiva por causa de Cristo. Si una persona llega a rendirse en la batalla, entonces realmente ha aceptado el mal, lo ha legitimado. En una palabra, lo aprueba, incluso lo permite. En un sermón sobre la primera de las bienaventuranzas, “Bienaventurados los pobres en espíritu”, el gran predicador inglés Charles Haddon Spurgeon dijo que “el pecador orgulloso quiere a Cristo, y sus propias fiestas; a Cristo y sus propias lujurias; a Cristo y su propia obstinación. ¡Aquel que es verdaderamente pobre en espíritu solo quiere a Cristo, y hará cualquier cosa, y dará cualquier cosa por tenerlo!”. Esto es lo que el Salmo 66 está sugiriendo. La idea misma de una persona intentando orar mientras abriga algún pecado, mientras se aferra a un pecado que no está dispuesto a rendir al señorío de Cristo, arroja una oscura sombra de duda sobre la validez de su condición de hijo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“Yes, we can name and claim those things God has clearly promised in Scripture. For instance, we can claim the certainty of forgiveness if we confess our sins before Him, because He promises that. But when it comes to getting a raise, purchasing a home, or finding healing from a disease, God hasn't made those kind of specific promises anywhere in Scripture, so we are not free to name and claim those things.
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― R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

“puntos de discrepancia acerca de temas particulares de debate entre denominaciones, pero lo cual revela una notable unidad de confesión acerca de los puntos”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Quién es Jesús?

“Our language about God takes into account both the similarities between him and us and the dissimilarities. The incomprehensibility of God seeks to respect that sense in which God is known by us and the sense in which he remains unknown to us.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“The thing that personally confirms more to me of the truthfulness of Scripture is the fact that I had to be exposed to the most radical higher criticism. The more I check out the problems of Scripture, the more amazed I am at the uncanny, minute, intricate symmetry of the entirety of that Book.”
― R.C. Sproul

“I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore.”
― R. C. Sproul

“When the Bible calls God holy, it means primarily that God is transcendentally separate. He is so far above and beyond us that He seems almost totally foreign to us. To be holy is to be “other,” to be different in a special way.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“God does not vacillate on His promises.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“When we look at the Trinitarian work of redemption, we make a distinction between its design and its accomplishment. Our redemption is designed and mandated by the Father (in conjunction with the other members of the Godhead), and the Father sends the Son into the world. This is why, throughout the Gospel of John, we repeatedly have heard Jesus say, both to His disciples and to His adversaries, that He came to do the will of the Father. The work of the Son of God was to accomplish the task of redemption that the Father intended.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“Can anything be more ridiculous than a religion that builds on a fundamental refusal to acknowledge what is known to be true? Can”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Más tarde, al escribir como el apóstol Pablo, él recordó que Jesús también dijo: “Dura cosa te es dar de coces contra el aguijón” (Hechos 26:14). Esa es una imagen extraña. En el mundo antiguo, cuando se usaba bueyes para tirar carretas, a veces los bueyes se ponían tercos, tal como las mulas, y el boyero les daba un latigazo en el lomo para que se movieran. A veces, cuando los bueyes se rehusaban firmemente a caminar y la punzada del látigo los impacientaba, daban de patadas y probablemente quebraban la carreta. Así que la gente empezó a poner aguijadas delante de las carretas. En estas aguijadas había púas firmes y agudas que lastimaban las patas de los bueyes y éstos dejaban de patear. Pero a veces, un buey que fuera especialmente terco daba “coces contra el aguijón”. El dolor de dar de coces una vez contra la púa enfurecía aun más al buey, y volvía a patear aun más fuerte. Cuanto más pateaba, más le dolía, y cuanto más le dolía, más se enfurecía, y cuanto más furioso, más pateaba. El buey quedaba hecho un sangriento desastre al luchar contra la aguijada. Lo que Jesús estaba diciendo era: “Saulo, eres un buey estúpido. ¿Por qué me persigues? No puedes ganar. Eres como un buey que patea contra las púas de una aguijada”.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué significa nacer de nuevo? (Preguntas Cruciales)

“The mind of God does not change for God does not change. Things change, and they change according to His sovereign will, which He exercises through secondary means and secondary activities. The prayer of His people is one of the means He uses to bring things to pass in this world. So if you ask me whether prayer changes things, I answer with an unhesitating "Yes!”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“We need to do more than sing "Amazing Grace"-we need to be repeatedly amazed by grace.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

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― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“We need to be very careful to go to the pages of the Scripture to learn about God’s will and the leading of the Spirit, and not simply to listen to the popular teachings of the Christian subculture in which we live.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Though our language, and especially our language about God, is never comprehensive and exhaustive in its ability to capture eternal truths, nevertheless it is adequate to give us truth without falsehood.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, and
when we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“Physical evil would be those things that we describe in terms of calamity or tragedy: earthquakes, tornadoes, fire, wind, storm, and pestilence. Metaphysical evil has to do with ontological imperfection.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is faith?

“God did not sanction it, but He did not stop it. In choosing not to stop it, He ordained it.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“Martín Lutero dijo una vez: “Cada cristiano debe convertirse en Cristo para su prójimo”. ¿Estaba sugiriendo que cada cristiano debería morir en una cruz para expiar los pecados de su prójimo? No, lo que estaba diciendo es que Cristo es invisible para las personas incrédulas a nuestro alrededor. Ellas no ven la cruz, la tumba vacía, o a Jesús transfigurado. No lo ven en su gloria de la ascensión, y no lo ven a la derecha del Padre. Lo único que ven es a ti y a mí; y al vernos a nosotros, deben ver a Cristo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la Gran Comisión?

“Luther said that it was inevitable that before long, the truth of the gospel would be hidden once more in obscurity. The reason he gave was that where the gospel is preached, it divides and controversy ensues. People don’t want ongoing controversy. We want peace.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is The Church?

“No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“By nature, the love of God is not in us.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“A Escritura nos diz que em Deus “vivemos, e nos movemos, e existimos” (At 17.28), mas, em nenhuma passagem, somos informados de que Deus tem seu ser no homem. Ele nunca precisou de nós para sobreviver ou ser, enquanto nós não podemos sobreviver por um instante sem o poder do ser de Deus sustentando nosso ser. Deus nos criou, e isso significa que desde a nossa primeira respiração somos dependentes dele para nossa existência. O que Deus cria ele também sustenta e preserva; portanto, somos dependentes de Deus para nossa existência contínua, como o fomos para a nossa existência original. Esta é a diferença suprema entre Deus e nós. Deus não tem dependência de nada fora dele mesmo.”
― R.C. Sproul, Somos todos teólogos: Uma introdução à Teologia sistemática

“tomorrow.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Do Jesus' Parables Mean?

“if you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“El gobierno es una estructura dotada legalmente del derecho a usar la fuerza para obligar a sus ciudadanos a hacer ciertas cosas y a no hacer otras cosas.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cuál es la relación entre la iglesia y el estado?

“The temple that was standing in Jesus' time was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. Many evangelical Christians are waiting eagerly for the Jews to build a new temple, seeing that as a sign of the end of the age. They fail to understand that the temple already has been rebuilt. Christ is the temple, the locus of the living presence of God in the midst of His people, and the rebuilding of the temple took place on the (lay of His resurrection.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“conducted by the Draft Committee. The present text makes clear exactly what the Council affirmed and denied. Obviously, those who signed the articles do not necessarily concur in every interpretation advocated by the commentary. Not even the members of the Draft Committee”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?