R.C. Sproul > Quotes

“I find that it is always dangerous to shout where God has whispered.”
― R.C. Sproul, What's in the Bible: A Tour of Scripture from the Dust of Creation to the Glory of Revelation

“¿Cómo podría una persona llorar y aun así estar gozosa? Bueno, yo creo que podemos desenredar ese nudo con bastante facilidad. El centro del concepto del Nuevo Testamento es este: una persona puede tener gozo bíblico aun cuando esté llorando, sufriendo o experimentando circunstancias adversas. Esto sucede porque la angustia de la persona está dirigida hacia una preocupación, pero en ese mismísimo momento, esa persona posee una medida de gozo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo tener gozo en mi vida?, Spanish Edition

“Desde luego, el conocimiento también es importante porque sin él no podemos saber lo que Dios requiere. Sin embargo, el conocimiento y la verdad serán conceptos abstractos a menos que tengamos comunión con Dios mediante la oración.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Christianity is not just about rules and laws, but rules and laws decreed by God have been a fact of life since the day of creation.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Can I Do With My Guilt?

“Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

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

“It compels us to live righteously—to know and do the right thing. At times, we lack this wisdom, but God, the source of supreme wisdom, promises to give it to us liberally. Who is this God whom we worship? We keep coming back to who He is. If we considered only His wisdom, that would be enough to keep us worshiping Him forever.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“The Italian Reformed scholar Girolamo Zanchi once made the distinction between a serious fall and a total fall.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Lose My Salvation?

“I am convinced that the most neglected dimension of the life of Jesus in the church today is His ascension. Without the ascension, both the cross and the resurrection are meaningless. The climax of Jesus' earthly ministry came when He ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. This was His investiture, His coronation, when the Father crowned Him as King of kings and Lord of lords. It was at that moment that Jesus' glory was restored to Him in His heavenly kingdom.
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― R.C. Sproul, John

“Los protestantes somos particularmente vulnerables a esta distorsión. Buscamos refugio en nuestra preciosa doctrina de la justificación por la sola fe, olvidando que la doctrina misma debe ser el detonante de la búsqueda de la justicia y la obediencia a la voluntad preceptiva de Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo conocer la voluntad de Dios?

“When God quickens a human soul, He does it immediately. When I say “immediately,”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“Defending the faith to the best of our ability is not a luxury or an indulgence in intellectual vanity.It is the task given to each one of us as we bear witness to our faith before the world.I”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“upright . . . faithfulness . . . righteousness . . . justice . . . steadfast love. Since all these terms characterize God, they also characterize His word and His works, a number of which are enumerated in the verses that follow.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“O alvo final do ministério terreno de Jesus não era a cruz nem a ressurreição. O alvo supremo é o seu retorno final e a consumação de seu reino. O alvo penúltimo, que já aconteceu, era sua ascensão.”
― R.C. Sproul, Somos todos teólogos: Uma introdução à Teologia sistemática

“The prevailing doctrine of justification today is not justification by faith alone. It's not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in Western culture today is justification by death. It's assumed that all one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“Thus, we urge our Christian brothers and sisters of all professions and denominations”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“Cuando se abandona la teonomía por la autonomía, la descripción bíblica de esa acción es pecado. La criatura declara la independencia de su Creador.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“Karl Marx ranks as one of the most remarkable thinkers in history - remarkable for the degree to which and the rapidity with which his ideas had an impact on world culture. When I was in high school, the population of the world was 2 billion; by the time I was forty-five the population of the world had increased dramatically. What stunned me, however, was that by that time 2 billion people were living behind the Iron Curtain. By the time I was forty-five, as many people lived under Marxist regimes as had lived in the entire world when I was a teenager.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World / Justification by Faith Alone

“There is such a thing as backsliding. Sometimes the slide seems as if it is greased with the slickest substance the Devil can use. But like children who totter at the top of a slide, fearful to move, we have a heavenly Father who guards the edge and who waits at the bottom of the slide to catch us in His arms.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“non-Christian thinking, according to Scripture, is “folly” (Ps.14:1; 1 Cor.1:18–2:16; 3:18-23).”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“It’s interesting that we can always find someone who will give an articulate and persuasive defense for the ethical legitimacy of some of the activities that God has judged to be an outrage to Him. As humans, our ability to defend ourselves from moral culpability is quite developed and nuanced. We become a culture in trouble when we begin to call evil good and good evil. To do that, we must distort the conscience, and, in essence, make man the final authority in life. All one has to do is to adjust his conscience to suit his ethic. Then we can live life with peace of mind, thinking that we are living in a state of righteousness.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Can I Develop A Christian Conscience?

“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,”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“differences”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

“Jewish people mixed the impurities of paganism with the faith delivered to them by God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will

“Forgetting the benefits of God is also the mark of the immature Christian, one who lives by his feelings. He is prone to a roller-coaster spiritual life, moving quickly from ecstatic highs to depressing lows. In the high moments, he feels an exhilarating sense of God's presence, but he plunges to despair the moment he senses an acute absence of such feelings.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“be more important than the cross? Without it we have no atonement, no redemption. Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“One theologian has said that how human beings understand their own existence determines how they think, how they behave, and the type of culture that they produce; thus, the culture that we live in is a product of our understanding of what it means to be human.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“When Jesus heard that statement from Simon, He pronounced a benediction. He looked at His disciple and said: “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven” (v. 17). In other words: “Simon, you didn’t come to this conclusion through your own unaided intellectual ability. To see what you see, to understand what you understand, requires divine assistance. God has unveiled a mystery to you. He has made clear to you what other people are missing every day. You are blessed that you see what you see.” It is crucial that we never forget that we have been given the new birth by the Spirit”
― R.C. Sproul, What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

“The Christian faith is like a stool with three legs, and those three elements of the faith are the good, the true, and the beautiful.”
― Sproul, R.C.