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“it is wrong to murder. The prohibition against murder”
― R.C. Sproul, How Can I Develop a Christian Conscience?

“When we realize that we have offended God, we must feel this rupture of our soul.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“Man is the creature possessing the highest grandeur in all of the created universe; at the same time, he is the creature that endures the most abject misery of all creatures in the universe.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“three subsistences, with three distinct persons. They subsist within the being of God. THE SPIRIT’S PERSONAL NATURE The fact that the Holy Spirit is a person is seen in a multitude of ways in Scripture. One of the primary evidences is that the Bible repeatedly and consistently”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Bible study for each day—bringing the best in biblical scholarship together with down-to-earth writing, Tabletalk helps you understand the Bible and apply it to daily living. Trusted theological resource— Tabletalk avoids trends,”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

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

“Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That’s why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not to trust in the promises of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

“Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.”
― R.C. Sproul, Five Things Every Christian Needs to Grow

“the portrait that we get in the Scriptures of man in his fallen condition is that he is utterly and thoroughly infected by sin in his whole person. In other words, sin is not an external blemish, but something that goes to the very core of our being.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“So, the question is not “Do people fall?” They do fall. Each and every Christian is subject to the possibility of a serious fall. But is someone who commits a serious fall eternally lost—making it a total fall—or is the fall a temporary condition that will be remedied by his restoration?”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Lose My Salvation?

“Esta es una de las descripciones más gráficas y detalladas del estado moribundo, aletargado y mortal de una persona no regenerada que encontramos en toda la Escritura. Tal persona está bajo la influencia del enemigo y busca la satisfacción de los deseos de la carne y los deseos del cuerpo y de la mente. No es una mera descripción del estilo de vida de criminales endurecidos o hedonistas declarados. Es la forma en que vive todo el mundo, sin excepción. El mundo entero vive normal y naturalmente según esta corriente caída.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué significa nacer de nuevo? (Preguntas Cruciales)

“The road to glory is through the house of pain.”
― R.C. Sproul

“Grant what Thou dost command, and command what Thou wilt.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“small”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“But we cannot have purpose accidentally, and we cannot have intelligence unintelligently. Impersonality cannot produce personality because that would be unintentional intention, and we cannot have intention unintentionally. Just like the concept of self-creation, unintentional intentionality is an absurdity. If there is design in the universe, then this self-existent, eternal something that is responsible for generating the universe as we find it must be a self-existent, eternal, intelligent being, not merely a something. And if it is intelligent, then it must be personal. And if it is personal, we have now moved away from abstractions and have landed squarely on the pages of sacred Scripture.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“We need Christ-the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's pattern
simply won't do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“God the Father has exalted His Son as head over all things, with the right to rule the rulers of this world.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“His sovereign, providential government is not exercised in such a way as to destroy what we call human freedom or human volition. Rather, human choices and human actions are a part of the overall providential scheme of things, and God brings His will to pass by means of the free decisions of moral agents. The fact that our free decisions fit into this overarching plan in no way lessens the reality of that freedom.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“the sense of the divine.” As fallen creatures, we suppress the knowledge of right and wrong that God plants within us. But try as we may, we can never extinguish it. It is still present in the soul. That is immediate general revelation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“One of the most comforting verses of Scripture is Romans 8:28: “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.” Only a God of sovereign providence could make a promise like that.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“We do not want to lose our loved ones, our health, our safety, or our possessions, but even if we do, God is working all things for our good. Even our sicknesses and losses in this world come under the providence of God, and it is a good providence.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Can We Know about God?

“What we are today is different from what we were yesterday and from what we will be tomorrow, if only in the fact that we age twenty-four hours in the passage from one day to the next. It is this facet of humanness, change, that defines existence.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Do we consider the wrath of God as a primitive or obscene concept? Is the very notion of hell an insult to us? If so, it is clear that the God we worship is not a holy God: Indeed He is not God at all. If we despise the justice of God, we are not Christians.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Jesus did not call the temple a house of sacrifices or a house of preaching. He called it a house of prayer. The temple’s chief designation was that it was to be the focal point of the nation and of the people for prayer.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“When the Bible speaks of the will of God, it does not always mean the decretive will of God. The decretive will of God cannot be broken or disobeyed. It will come to pass. On the other hand, there is a will that can be broken: "the
preceptive will of God." It can be disobeyed.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“So many of us are practical atheists. We may be theoretical theists, but our lives betray a practical kind of atheism in that we don't live in order to please God. If we don't live in order to please God, it can only be because we do not really believe He is worth our attention.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“the neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Built into our concept of justice is the idea that punishment must fit the crime. If the punishment is more sever than the crime, then an injustice has been committed.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries.
He is the author of more than sixty”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?