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“God has not given us specific instructions for each and every possible ethical issue we face, but neither are we left to grope in the dark and to make our decisions on the basis of mere opinion. This is an important comfort to the Christian because it assures us that in dealing with ethical questions, we are never working in a vacuum. The ethical decisions that we make touch the lives of people, and mold and shape human personality and character. It is precisely at this point that we need the assistance of God's superior wisdom.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Old Testament believers were saved by a faith that looked forward, while we are saved by a faith that looks backward. The objective ground for the salvation of both groups is the same-the atonement of Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“La máxima prioridad de Jesús es que busquemos primero el reino de Dios y su justicia. Todo lo demás será añadido a ello.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo conocer la voluntad de Dios?

“El parecer de Dios no cambia porque Dios no cambia. Las cosas cambian, y cambian según su soberana voluntad, la cual él ejerce por medios secundarios y actividades secundarias. La oración de su pueblo es uno de los medios que él utiliza para llevar a cabo las cosas en este mundo. Así que si tú me preguntas si la oración cambia las cosas, yo respondo sin titubear “¡sí!”.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

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― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Himself”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“Man alone can think of the future and speculate upon or imagine a better life than he currently enjoys or could ever bring to pass, and this is the source of his misery.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“à une trahison à l’échelle cosmique. Le péché équivaut à la trahison envers un Souverain parfaitement pur. Il s’agit d’un acte d’ingratitude suprême envers celui à qui nous devons tout, celui qui nous a donné la vie même.”
― R.C. Sproul, La sainteté de Dieu

“Every Christian is a theologian. We are always engaged in the activity of learning about the things of God. We are not all theologians in the professional or academic sense, but theologians we are, for better or for worse.”
― R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

“To look at the church as an organization where the labor and ministry are done only by the ministers is to miss the entire point. The ministers’ primary task is to equip the saints—the rank-and-file, the people in the pews. The ministry of the church belongs to the people of God who have been gifted by the Holy Spirit to carry it out.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is the Great Commission?

“If I don't like something I read in Scripture, perhaps I simply don't understand it. If so, studying it again may help. If, in fact, I do understand the passage and still don't like it, this is not an
indication there is something wrong with the Bible. It's an indication that something is wrong with me, something that needs to change. Often,”
― R.C. Sproul, Five Things Every Christian Needs to Grow

“Nos es necesario implorar asiduamente a Dios: Primero, para que nuestro corazón se inflame de un inmenso y ardiente deseo de siempre buscarlo, amarlo y honrarlo, debemos habituarnos a encontrar en él nuestro refugio, en todas las circunstancias, como único puerto de salvación.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“even in the Scriptures, particularly in the Old Testament, the place of worship was very important to the religion of Israel. If you recall, the tabernacle was built according to the detailed provisions and commandments of God. The articles that were placed in that structure were crafted”
― R.C. Sproul, Why Should I Join a Church?

“The key issue is this: Must we have a comprehensive knowledge of God in order to have true knowledge of God? One of the first principles in systematic theology regarding God is the doctrine of His incomprehensibility. This means that no human can now or will ever have a totally exhaustive, comprehensive knowledge and understanding of God. God is infinite in His excellence, and we, even in heaven, will not have an infinite perspective to understand Him. We are finite creatures, and by virtue of our creatureliness, our understanding of God is limited. If, indeed, a comprehensive picture of God were required to have a true understanding of Him, this would mean that we could have no true knowledge of God because we certainly don’t have a comprehensive knowledge of Him. Therefore, the fact that our knowledge of God is partial does not mean that our knowledge is untrue.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“Reformed theology applies the doctrine of God relentlessly to all other doctrines, making it the chief control factor in all theology.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“contrast”
― R.C. Sproul, What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

“Know God’s Will? How Should I Live in This World? What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Can I Be Sure I’m Saved? What Is Faith? What Can I Do with My Guilt? What Is the Trinity? What Is Baptism? Can I Have Joy in My Life? Who”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is a crucible. As gold is refined in the fire, purged of its dross and impurities, so our faith is tested by fire. Gold perishes. Our souls do not. We experience pain and grief for a season. It is while we are in the fire that perplexity assails us. But there is another side to the fire. As the dross burns away, the genuineness of faith is purified unto the salvation of our souls.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“Hemos aprendido a coexistir con personas con las que discrepamos. Valoramos esa paz. Pero me temo que el peligro es que la valoramos tanto que estamos dispuestos a oscurecer el evangelio mismo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la iglesia?

“entrance, our guide spent five to ten minutes carefully instructing us on the proper protocol for entering into this sacred place. For example, we could not escort our wives by holding on to their arms because that gesture is deemed inappropriate for such a holy place. And, of course,”
― R.C. Sproul, Why Should I Join a Church?

“one”
― R.C. Sproul, What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

“In reality, idolatry takes place when any attribute of God is stripped from His glory, and we replace the biblical God with a god that we create in our own image.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Does God's Law Apply to Me?

“An attack on absolutes is an attack on the ultimate absolute, God Himself. There is nothing relative about Him; in His being, He is objective, eternal, and absolute.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“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?

“Those who want to reduce Christianity to a set of moral guidelines and restrict Jesus to the role of ethical teacher or moralist fail to observe that much of what Jesus said was about Himself.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Work of Christ: What the Events of Jesus' Life Mean for You

“God’s priority is that people understand his holy character. People may not feel their need of that, but there is nothing they need more than to have their minds exploded in their understanding of who God is. God”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Las personas perdonadas perdonan a los demás”.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“It seemed a complete waste of time to reply to your arguments. I have already myself refuted them over and over again, and Philip Melancthon, in his unsurpassed volume on the doctrines of theology, has trampled them in the dust. That book of his, to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its place in the Church’s canon; whereas your book, by comparison, struck me as so worthless and poor that my heart went out to you for having defiled your lovely, brilliant flow of language with such vile stuff. I thought it outrageous to convey material of so low a quality in the trappings of such rare eloquence; it is like using gold or silver dishes to carry garden rubbish or dung.[”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by”
― R.C. Sproul, What is the Relationship between Church and State?

“any time the gospel is preached accurately and passionately, it will bring conflict, and since people flee from conflict, every generation will tend to water down or hide the gospel, allowing it to be eclipsed by darkness as it had been for centuries before the Reformation. At”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans