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“A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“We neither surrender to the world nor flee from the world. We are to penetrate the world with a new and different spirit.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“No obstante, hay un Dios que es soberano, cuya voluntad es más grande que la nuestra. Su voluntad restringe mi voluntad. Mi voluntad no puede restringir la suya. Cuando él decreta algo soberanamente, ese algo sucederá, me guste o no, lo elija o no. Él es soberano. Yo estoy subordinado.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo conocer la voluntad de Dios?

“we sin because we are sinners. We are not sinners because we sin.”
― R.C. Sproul, Saved from What?

“all evangelism is witness, but not all witness is evangelism.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is the Great Commission?

“Las circunstancias de esta vida se diluirán en la insignificancia al ser comparadas con aquello que hemos recibido de Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo tener gozo en mi vida?

“It certainly takes grace to able to find joy in our hearts when people are experiencing joy over a gain that is, in some way, our loss. This involves more than just baseball games. It involves countless things that touch our daily lives. But God enables us as Christians to look at things not just from our own selfish perspectives but from the perspectives of others.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Have Joy In My Life?

“Anyone who has the most rudimentary understanding of justification by faith knows that authentic faith always manifests itself in a zeal for obedience. No”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“I do not have to prove to you that God exists, because I think you already know it. Your problem is not that you do not know that God exists; your problem is that you despise the God whom you know exists. Your problem is not intellectual; it is moral—you hate God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“That is to say, that which is totally concealed from our eyes right now, namely the very substance and essence of God, we will see in all of his glory and majesty and splendor in heaven.”
― R.C. Sproul, Now, That's a Good Question!: Answers to Questions about Life and Faith

“Anthropologists say that the heart of every human being contains an insatiable hunger to make contact with the holy.”
― R.C. Sproul, Why Should I Join a Church?

“kept”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Lose My Salvation?

“Shepherds were not even allowed to give testimony in court because they were considered utterly untrustworthy, the dregs of society. In other words, the shepherd was seen as just a bit above a slave. He was a lowly servant. That is why it was so significant that the first announcement of the birth of Jesus was given to shepherds in the fields outside Bethlehem. Those shepherds had the lowest status in the culture of that time. Things were much the same in the time of the first family, and that is significant to what occurred in Genesis”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Los pobres deben ser una preocupación prioritaria de la iglesia. Ellos son los hambrientos que se deben alimentar, los desnudos que hay que vestir.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?

“In heaven the name of God is holy. It is breathed by angels in a sacred hush.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Estamos corrompidos, y debemos ser limpiados. También podemos vernos tentados a concebir el arrepentimiento como un accesorio opcional de la fe. A fin de cuentas, la justificación es solo por la fe. Pero la justificación no excluye el arrepentimiento. El arrepentimiento no es un concepto secundario en la Biblia; más bien es central en la conversión y la justificación.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

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

“Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“The central issue of Christianity is the issue of justification. It faces the dilemma squarely. The only possible way for an unjust person to stand in the presence of a just and holy God is to be justified. If we remain unjustified, we die in our sins.
The only way we can be justified is by the righteousness of Christ. He alone has the merit necessary to cover us. That righteousness is received by faith. If we trust in Christ, we are covered by His righteousness and are justified by faith. If we do not trust in Christ, we will stand before God's judgment alone, unjust people before a just God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“Those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“this should be reflected not only in the articles in their original form but also in the present publication. It was not the aim of those who gathered at Chicago to break relations with those who do not share our convictions concerning the”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“The basic theme of stewardship is that we are responsible before God for how we use the goods, services, and resources that are at our disposal. That means that a Christian steward is to be careful not to be wasteful with them. We need to measure the value of things we buy.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Think about Money?

“Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“At the very heart of honor is the dimension of respect—recognizing the dignity of a person and treating him accordingly. The respect established in the Decalogue began with children’s responsibilities toward their parents. This is where the whole concept of showing respect to divinely constituted levels of authority begins.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Does God's Law Apply to Me?

“That source is the Greek word kuriache, which means "those who belong to the kurios." Thus, church in its literal origin means "the people who belong to the Lord.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“The more we understand God's sovereignty, the more our prayers will be filled with thanksgiving.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Concerning all things necessary for his own glory. That is the soli Deo gloria of the Reformation. What we do will be measured by how faithfully we have manifested the glory of God and exalted him.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“We tend to remain conscious of the boundary flags for the course of this world. That slavish adherence to a course that is set out for us by the world is a mark of an unregenerate person, Paul says.
Not”
― R.C. Sproul, What Does It Mean To Be Born Again?

“We only embrace relativism when objective truth is a threat to us and there is no objective truth more threatening to us than the truth of the holiness of God.”
― R.C. Sproul

“glimpsed”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is the Church?