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“The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house. That is the day of ultimate triumph for the Christian in this world, and yet it is a day we fear and a day that we postpone as long as we possibly can because we don't really believe that the day of our death is better than the day of our birth.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“I made a brief reference earlier to the first Evangelism Explosion diagnostic question: “Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for sure that if you were to die tonight you would go to heaven?” The second diagnostic question is this: “If you were to die tonight and stand before God, and God were to say to you, ‘Why should I let you into My heaven?’ what would you say?” Once, when my son was young, I asked him these two questions. I was delighted that he immediately answered the first question by saying “Yes.” But when I asked him the second question, he looked at me as if I had just posed the silliest question he had ever heard. He said, “Well, I would say, ‘Because I’m dead.’” What could be simpler? My son was being reared in a home committed to biblical theology, but not only had I failed to communicate justification by faith alone to him, he already had been captured by the pervasive view in our culture that everyone goes to heaven and that all you have to do to get there is to die.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“Unless I am convinced by Sacred Scripture or by evident reason, I will not recant. My conscience is held captive by the Word of God and to act against conscience is neither right nor safe.” These immortal words were uttered by Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“Today a frightening lack of fear of God prevails in our world. Martin Luther once remarked that those around him spoke to God "as if He were a shoe clerk's apprentice." If that was true in Luther's day, how much more so today? Yet the top priority that Jesus established is that the name of God should be hallowed, honored, and exalted.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“What would induce God to change His mind? Perhaps new information, some knowledge He lacks until we communicate it to Him for His consideration. However, the Bible tells us that when we come to our King in prayer, He already knows what we are going to ask for and He knows what we need better than we do. We have to remember that this One we're talking to is omniscient. He doesn't learn anything new. So if you're going to change His mind by your prayers, it won't be because you give Him new information.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

“If the church is ever to be the church triumphant, she must first be the church militant. She must be willing to enter into a spiritual war, one that could cost us our very lives.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

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Packer, and R. C. Sproul. These were discussed in a number of ways by groups of delegates from the Advisory”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Todo lo que Dios hace es en primer lugar para su gloria y en segundo lugar para nuestro beneficio. Oramos porque Dios nos ordena que oremos, porque eso lo glorifica, y porque nos beneficia.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“Les vrais non-conformistes cessent de convoiter ; ils cessent de commérer ; ils cessent de diffamer ; ils cessent d’éprouver de la haine et de l’amertume ; ils se mettent à manifester le fruit de l’Esprit.”
― R.C. Sproul, La sainteté de Dieu

“We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by the Father to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and He passed the baton to His disciples.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“He is the author of more than sixty books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of Heaven, Truths We Confess, The Truth of the Cross, and The Prayer of the Lord. He also served as general editor of The Reformation Study Bible and”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Luchar por la verdad de Dios es un acto de amor, no una señal de falta de amor. Si amamos a Dios, si amamos a Cristo, si amamos la iglesia, debemos amar la verdad que define la esencia misma del cristianismo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Quién Es el Espíritu Santo?

“✞] When Christ gwho is your 1 life happears, then you also will appear with him iin glory.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put l into your lap. For m with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“We do not want to take credit for our evil choices. We sometimes try to blame them on God, just as Adam did when he said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate” (Gen. 3:12). He tried to blame the fall on God Himself. That’s our tendency—take credit for the good, transfer blame for the evil. But Edwards understood that any good deed we do, any righteous choices that we make, are only because God is at work within us.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“if you want to find out what a person really believes, you should analyze his checkbook. As Jesus said, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also" (Luke 12:34). So if you want to know where your heart is, check out your treasure. Do we invest in the kingdom of God or our own kingdoms?”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“the gospel of Christ was given in the promise of the curse of the enemy. That”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Whenever a person experiences a stabbing pain, he is alarmed. He is uncomfortable because of it, so he seeks immediate relief. He might get painkillers to try o get rid of that uncomfortable feeling. Yet from a physical perspective, pain is an extremely important reality, because pain signals to us that there is something wrong, and if we cover up the pain, we could be covering up a life threatening illness. Though we no longer suffer from the torment of pain, we may be moving in a deadly direction.”
― R.C. Sproul

“Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy" (1 Peter 4:12-13).”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“Living in submission to what God commands is the essence of faith.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“The way Christians relate to each other—which is something that people can see—bears witness to Christ. When we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit the imprisoned, we bear witness to the compassion of Christ. The Christian, without converting people to Christ, can still bear witness to who Jesus is and what He is like. There’s a certain sense in which the bearing of witness to the kingdom of Christ is every human being’s Godgiven responsibility, because every human being is made in the image of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is the Great Commission?

“The English word “ethic” or “ethics” comes from the Greek word ethos. The word “morals” or “morality” comes from the word mores. The difference is that the ethos of a society or culture deals with its foundational philosophy, its concept of values, and its system of understanding how the world fits together. There is a philosophical value system that is the ethos of every culture in the world. On the other hand, mores has to do with the customs, habits, and normal forms of behavior that are found within a given culture.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience?

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― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

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― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“First, they stopped thanking Him for His provision. Second, they stopped asking Him for His provision. Third, they began grumbling about His provision. Finally, they began reminiscing about how good things had been in Egypt. They dreamed about the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, and the garlic they had had in Egypt—all the while forgetting about the oppression, the hardships, and the tortures they had endured at the hands of Pharaoh.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“I think the attribute of the church that is most seriously under attack in our day is its Apostolicity, because there has been a wholesale rejection within the church of the authority of sacred Scripture.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is The Church?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Hini nothing was made that was made. In Hini was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“An act of holy heroism? No! It was an act of arrogance, a sin of presumption. Uzzah assumed that his hand was less polluted than the earth. But it wasn’t the ground or the mud that would desecrate the ark; it was the touch of man. The earth is an obedient creature. It does what God tells it to do. It brings forth its yield in its season. It obeys the laws of nature that God has established. When the temperature falls to a certain point, the ground freezes. When water is added to the dust, it becomes mud, just as God designed it. The ground doesn’t commit cosmic treason. There is nothing polluted about the ground.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is one in essence and three in person, so He is one in one sense and three in another sense, and that does not violate the categories of rational thought or the law of non-contradiction.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“in which Jesus was speaking. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?