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“In some Christian circles the biblical call to a childlike faith has been elevated to a spiritual ideal that radically distorts the biblical meaning of faith. The New Testament does describe a certain childlike faith as a virtue. Jesus said, “Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it” (Mark 10:15). But”
― R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

“The storm had made them afraid. Jesus’ action to still the tempest made them more afraid. In the power of Christ they met something more frightening than they had ever met in nature. They were in the presence of the holy.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“God, when He outlined His pattern for worship in the Old Testament, also mandated visible signs, tangible acts of drama that are not isolated from the Word or contrary to the Word but are married to the Word.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Yet, we have sophisticated scientists today who make sober statements declaring that the whole universe was created by chance. This is to say that nothing caused something, and there is no statement more anti-scientific than that. Everything has a cause, and the ultimate cause, as we have seen, is God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“All of our prayers are to include thanksgiving. Like the leper, we must pause, turn back, and give thanks. We are so indebted to God that we can never exhaust our opportunities for expressing gratitude. Forgetting”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“One historian observed that every time we see in the record of church history a large and significant revival of the people of God, we also see a renewed interest in the Psalms because there’s something about the Psalter that induces the soul to worship. There can’t be genuine revival unless it is followed by a heightened sense of worship among the people of God. The book of Psalms gives us undiluted worship—worship that we know is pleasing to God because it comes to us from His wisdom and from His own inspiration.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Biblical Wisdom?

“A razão exige convincentemente um ser que possui asseidade; sem ele, nada poderia existir neste mundo. Jamais poderia ter havido um tempo em que nada existia, porque, se esse tempo tivesse existido, nada existiria agora.”
― R.C. Sproul, Somos todos teólogos: Uma introdução à Teologia sistemática

“Pascal said man’s grandeur is located in his unique ability to contemplate his own existence. 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?

“When scholars examine the Old Testament understanding of repentance, they often make a distinction between two kinds of repentance. The first is cultic or ritualistic repentance and the second is prophetic repentance.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“science to studying the Bible so that we can make the right deductions from God’s revelation. It’s called hermeneutics,”
― R.C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture

“And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“I am the LoRD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not. . ." (Ex. 20:2-4a, emphasis added). We see that this is not law for law's sake, but for people's sake.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Helper, to be with you forever” (John 14:16). Some translations use the word “Comforter” instead of “Helper.” The Greek word that is translated as “Helper” or “Comforter” is parakletos; it is the source of the English word paraclete. This word includes a prefix, para-, that means “alongside,” and a root that is a form of the verb kletos, which means “to call.” So, a parakletos was someone who was called to stand alongside another. It usually was applied to an attorney, but not just any attorney. Technically, the parakletos was the family attorney who”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

“Jesus is a Savior with power, ultimate power, and He holds the power of being in His hand. His”
― R.C. Sproul, Discovering the God Who Is: His Character and Being. His Power and Personality

“In Christ we meet the fullness of the revelation of the Father, and it is only through Scripture that we meet Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“The Council of Chalcedon produced the following statement, known as the Chalcedonian Creed: Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the fathers has handed down to us.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“Apologetics, for this reason, is not merely about winning an argument.It is about winning souls.The”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“One critical factor in this dilemma is the fact that ministers are profoundly pressed to conform to acceptable contemporary standards. The person who comes to the minister for counsel is not always looking for guidance from a transcendent God, but rather for permission to do what
he or she wants-a license to sin. The Christian counselor is vulnerable to sophisticated forms of manipulation coming from the very people who seek his advice. The minister is placed in that difficult pressure point of acquiescing to the desires of the people or being considered unloving and fun-squelching. Add to this the cultural emphasis that there is something dehumanizing in the discipline and moral restraints God imposes on us. Thus, to stand with God is often to stand against men and to face the fiery trials that go with Christian convictions.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Prayer, like everything else in the Christian life, is for God's glory and for our benefit, in that order.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Even if our argument is as compelling as God’s own argument, that doesn’t mean that everyone will be willing to admit to it. But it is not our task to convince anyone that God exists. We are not called to convince people, but we are called to give a reason for the hope that is within us, and we are called to be faithful to that responsibility.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“God, however, is eternally constant. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“In this experience Saul became Paul just as Jacob had become Israel. The battle was over. Saul struggled with God and lost. Here, like Isaiah, Saul received his call, his commission to apostleship. His life was changed, and the course of world history was changed with it. In defeat Paul found peace.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“When Luther boldly declared the biblical doctrine of jus.ifrcation by faith alone, he said, "Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“was murdered for us because we are murderers. We have committed murder in our hearts. We have committed murder against Him, but in that murder comes our salvation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Matthew: An Expositional Commentary

“when we turn to the New Testament and look at the ministry of Christ as the second Adam, we see that Christ wins what Adam failed to win. He wins the tree of life, and He gives that gift to His people, so that we now inherit the benefits that Adam and Eve would have had, had they passed their probation, had they met the terms of the covenant of works. In that case, they would have had eternal life, but they failed and lost it by their sin.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

“A mí me sorprende cuando la gente responde que no cambiarían nada. Simplemente no concibo que alguien no tenga nada que quisiera cambiar. ¿Acaso no tenemos todos remordimientos?”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

“proper”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Honor must go not to our organizations, our denominations, our individual modes of worship, or even our particular churches, but to God alone.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

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

“We do well to remember that only one Man has ever spoken infallibly—our Lord Jesus, who alone is Head of His church. Let us receive His Word—the Scriptures—as the only infallible communication from God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are We Together?: A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism