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“But Satan comes to believers, just as he came to Joshua the high priest in the book of Zechariah (Zech. 3:1–5), calling attention to our dirty garments and accusing us of our sins. Why does he do that? Why would Satan invest so much time and energy in accusing people who have been forgiven of their sins? As the archenemy of God and His church, Satan wants to paralyze us, to rob us of our freedom, to take away from us our joy and our delight in the free grace of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Can I Do With My Guilt?

“We assert boldly that God has revealed to us who He is, who we are, and how we are expected to relate to Him. He has revealed for us that which is pleasing to Him and commanded by Him. Revelation provides a supernatural aid in understanding the good. This point is so basic and
so obvious that it has often been overlooked and obscured as we search for answers to particular questions.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Dios el Espíritu Santo cambia la disposición de nuestra alma y la inclinación de nuestro corazón. Antes de la regeneración, somos fríos, hostiles, o indiferentes (que es la peor forma de hostilidad) a las cosas de Dios, y no tenemos ningún afecto honesto por él, porque estamos en la carne, y la carne no ama las cosas de Dios. El amor a Dios es encendido por el poder regenerador del Espíritu Santo, quien derrama el amor de Dios en nuestro corazón (Romanos 5:5).”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“The quest for knowledge is the essence of science. The science of biology is a quest to gain a knowledge of living things, the science of physics is an attempt to gain knowledge about physical things, and the science of theology is an attempt to gain a coherent, consistent knowledge of God. All”
― R.C. Sproul, Everyone's a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology

“Miracles and truth are necessary
because the whole man must be convinced
in body and soul.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Glory of Christ

“the Holy Spirit is not a sourpuss. He is not morose or sardonic. As the Spirit of God indwells the Christian and their personality is shaped by the presence of agape in the soul, one of the results is having a cheerful disposition”
― R.C. Sproul, Growing in Holiness: Understanding God's Role and Yours

“There are other significant hints about the Trinity in the Old Testament. It is also in the creation account that we first encounter the Spirit of God (Gen. 1:2). By bringing something out of nothing, the Spirit meets one of the criteria for deity that are set forth in the New Testament. That is another hint as to the multipersonal character of God early on in the Scriptures. Another is found in the Old Testament passage that is quoted in the New Testament more often than any other text—Psalm 110. This psalm has a very strange beginning. The psalmist says, “The LORD says to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool’ ” (v. 1). Characteristically, when we see the personal name of God, Yahweh, in the Old Testament, we also see His chief or supreme title, Adonai, associated with it. For instance, Psalm 8 says, “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (v. 1a). In the Hebrew, “O LORD, our Lord” reads “O Yahweh, our Adonai”; there is a clear connection between Yahweh and Adonai. In Psalm 110, however, God is having a conversation with David’s Lord: “The LORD [Yahweh] says to my Lord [Adonai]: Sit at my right hand. . . .” The New Testament picks up on this and talks about Jesus simultaneously being David’s son and David’s Lord. This psalm also provides”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“The foolishness of preaching is the method God has chosen to save the world. That”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Far from God seeking to destroy the “self,” as many distortions of Christianity would claim, God redeems the self.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“It is your duty to believe and to teach what the Bible teaches, not what you would like it to teach.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Luther said that when the gospel is preached with passion and with accuracy, it does not bring peace. In fact, our Lord Himself said, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Matt. 10:34).”
― R.C. Sproul, What is The Church?

“A Divine and Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God, Shown to Be Both Scriptural and Rational Doctrine.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“We must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“God plays for keeps. He wants our hearts, our souls, our lives. He wants us to make the seeking of His kingdom the main and central business of our lives. He doesn't want us to play with religion, to dabble in church, or to simply write a check. he wants us -- body and soul.”
― Sproul, R.C.

“significant segments of evangelicalism and the outright denial of it by other church movements.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Yet I believe we are in the midst of a new and more evil holocaust, which sees the destruction of 1.5 million unborn babies every year in the United States alone.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“] m For the sake of Christ, then, n I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For o when I am weak, then I am strong.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“Infallibility has to do with the question of ability or potential; that which is infallible is said to be unable to make mistakes or to err. By contrast, that which is inerrant is that which, in fact, does not err. Theoretically, something may be fallible and at the same time inerrant. That is, it is possible for someone who errs to not err. However, the reverse is not true. If someone is infallible, that means he cannot err, and if he cannot err, then he does not err. If he does err, that proves that he is capable of erring and therefore is not infallible. Thus, to assert that something is infallible yet at the same time errant is to distort the meaning of infallible and/or errant, or to be in a state of confusion”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“We trust God's Word to understand that the world in which we live was designed, framed, and created by the Word of God, so that the things that are seen were not made of things that were (or are) visible. We cannot find anything in the universe today that has, in itself, sufficient power to account for its existence. In fact, the more we analyze it, the more finite and contingent it manifests itself to be.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“Pero Jesús no tenía un local. Él no esperaba detrás de unas puertas cerradas que la gente viniera a verlo. El suyo era un ministerio “ambulante”. Él salía a donde estaba la gente. De eso precisamente se tratan las misiones. El ministerio de Cristo era un ministerio de búsqueda del dolor y de los perdidos.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la Gran Comisión?

“and believers existing side by side. This means unbelief can gain entrance into the church. But it never can gain entrance into Christ. The Christ we believe, the Christ we trust,”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Chicago. At that time, it issued a statement on biblical inerrancy that included a Preamble,”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“El arrepentimiento genuino es algo que obra en nosotros el Espíritu Santo. Es una actividad de la gracia de Dios. Ya hemos visto que la conversión y el arrepentimiento van inseparablemente unidos. Si miramos atentamente el concepto de fe del Nuevo Testamento, que es el supremo requisito para la redención, aprendemos que el arrepentimiento es parte esencial de la fe. Si una persona tiene fe pero no arrepentimiento, no tiene una fe auténtica. Esa persona no posee los elementos necesarios para la redención; la conversión es un resultado de la fe y del arrepentimiento.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

“The body of Christ is a group of people who live daily in the context of forgiveness.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Los que son genuinamente salvos son los que demuestran ser hacedores de la Palabra. Cuando la semilla echa raíz y crece, hay fruto.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“I have never heard a sermon on coveting. I have heard plenty of sermons about the evils of whiskey, but none on the evils of covetousness. Strange.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“The Christian life is nothing if not challenging. It is not the fun life, nor the easy life. It is life.”
― R.C. Sproul, What We Believe: Understanding and Confessing the Apostles' Creed

“Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper “frame of mind” to desire obedience.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“G.C. Berkouwer once said, “The essence of Christian theology is grace, and the essence of Christian ethics is gratitude.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans: An Expositional Commentary

“A life marked by risk includes real fear and trembling, dread and anxiety.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World