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“Like the Chaldeans, Joseph’s brothers were guilty of sin, sin that they personally had wanted to do. But God stands above all human choices and works through human freedom to bring about His own providential goals. That is what Joseph was saying: “You chose to do something sinful, but all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. I”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“29[✞] “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“Jesús habló más del infierno de lo que habló del cielo,”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“the woman I loved. Several months passed with no resolution of this dilemma. Finally, spring break approached. My fiancée was planning to go home to Pittsburgh from the college where she was studying, and I persuaded her to stop at my college, attend a campus Bible study with me, and then spend the night in the girls’ dorm. I cannot remember anything for which I spent more time praying. I spent virtually the whole day before she arrived”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

“We’ve learned to coexist with people with whom we disagree. We value that peace. But I’m afraid the danger is that we value it so much that we’re willing to obscure the gospel itself.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is The Church?

“We cannot come to God if we don’t believe there is a God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“Comprender más profundamente lo detestable que es nuestro pecado para Dios puede cambiar o reprogramar nuestras actitudes hacia el pecado.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo conocer la voluntad de Dios?

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

“[W]e are saved by two things -- the death of Christ and the life of Christ. The death of Christ covers our sin, but the life of Christ provides the merit and the righteousness that we must have in order to enter into heaven. So Jesus' life is as important for us as His death. He lived to fulfill all of the law of God.”
― Sproul, R.C.

“Dios le dice a Habacuc: “Responderé a tu pregunta. Pero no responderé inmediatamente. Debes esperar. Pero mientras esperas, recuerda que la respuesta llegará con seguridad”. Luego hace un contraste entre la persona orgullosa, que no es recta, que vive según la vista, según lo que tiene inmediatamente en frente. No tiene tiempo para confiar en las promesas invisibles de Dios. En un marcado contraste está el hombre de fe. Aun cuando las promesas de Dios se tarden, es seguro que se cumplirán, y a los ojos de Dios la persona justa es la que vive por fe. Esta expresión, “el justo vivirá por su”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“It's dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man-a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“To reject theology is to reject the knowledge of God. This is not an option for the Christian.”
― R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

“There is no more direct statement or more clear affirmation
of the deity of Christ to be found anywhere in Scripture than in the first verse of John's Gospel.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Pero el nuevo nacimiento es meramente el punto de partida de este proceso que continúa hasta que somos glorificados en el cielo. La lucha continúa desde el día del nuevo nacimiento hasta aquel día en el cielo cuando alcanzamos la plenitud de la madurez en Cristo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué significa nacer de nuevo? (Preguntas Cruciales)

“One reason we lack faith, have crises of faith, and are assailed by doubts about our future is that we project on God our own cavalier attitude toward vows, oaths, and promises. We forget that God has never once broken a promise. When He swears a covenant, He keeps it forever. His promise will not fail.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“The message of the false prophets of Israel was one of peace.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is The Church?

“Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the Scriptures and other people as well.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Paul teaches that all men, by nature, know something of the existence, character, power, and deity of God, because God so clearly manifests Himself in general revelation (Rom. 1:18–20).”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“Mi confianza en el futuro descansa en la confianza en el Dios que controla la historia.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“If we rest our assurance on an experience and not on the Word of God, we're inviting all kinds of doubts to assail us in our pilgrimages. We need to seek authentic knowledge of our salvation, not just some warm and fuzzy experience.
It”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“This particular psychiatrist wrote a critique of the ethical teachings of Jesus. Usually, those who are most hostile to Jesus, the church, and Christianity have good words for Jesus as an ethical teacher.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Can I Develop a Christian Conscience?

“spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21). Holy Scripture must be acknowledged as the Word of God by virtue of its divine origin.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim. In some cases, our prayers must involve travail of the soul and agony of heart such as Jesus Himself experienced in the Garden of Gethsemane. Sometimes the immature Christian suffers bitter disappointment, not because God failed to keep His promises, but because well-meaning Christians made promises “for” God that God Himself never authorized.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Articles of Affirmation and Denial. (The Preamble and the Short Statement were also subjected to editorial revisions. The Exposition was left largely as received.) After considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received a very substantial endorsement by the participants: 240 (out 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. That meeting took place in the fall of 1979, with Drs. Geisler, Hoehner, Nicole, and Radmacher in attendance. It was the consensus of those present that we should not undertake to modify a statement that so many people had signed, both at the summit meeting and afterward. But
in order to ward off misunderstandings and to provide an exposition of the position advocated by the ICBI, it was thought desirable to provide a commentary on each of the articles. A draft commentary was prepared by Dr. Sproul and was submitted to the members of the Draft Committee. A number of editorial changes were made, and the final result is what is contained in this booklet.
Dr. Sproul is well qualified to write such a commentary. He had prepared the first draft of the Nineteen Articles, and although they underwent considerable change in the editing process, Dr. Sproul”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“During his distinguished academic career, Dr. Sproul helped train men for the ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“Spirit is a person, not a thing.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“El pecado simplemente no puede producir felicidad, pero puede causar placer, y cuando confundimos placer con felicidad, estamos totalmente expuestos a la seducción del enemigo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“Very early in my tenure with St. Andrew’s, I determined that I should adopt the ancient Christian practice of lectio continua, “continuous expositions,” in my preaching. This method of preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible (rather than choosing a new topic each week) has been attested throughout church history as the one approach that ensures that believers hear the full counsel of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“When Hume gives his critique of miracles and says they violate the principle of uniform experience, he not only gets rid of miracles, he gets rid of anything unusual.”
― R.C. Sproul, Classical Apologetics

“We cannot take our plates and help ourselves to only those attributes of God we find tasteful and pass by those attributes we find unpalatable. In practice, this is done every day. It is the basis of idolatry; we first deconstruct God by stripping Him of some of His attributes and then refashion Him into a different God more to our liking. An idol is a false god that serves as a substitute for the real God.”
― R.C. Sproul, God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children