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“We see that God called the nation of Israel His vine. He planted and tended it, and He expected it to bear fruit to all nations (see Ps. 80; Isa. 5; Jer. 2:2 1).”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“No traitor to any king or nation has even approached the wickedness of our treason before God.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“A veces nuestro gozo está determinado por la intensidad de la bendición más reciente que hayamos experimentado en las manos de Dios. Siempre estamos buscando la experiencia suprema, un clímax espiritual que nos entusiasme y nos llene de gozo, pero estos sentimientos intensos se agotan. Cuando tengo todo en perspectiva, sé que si nunca experimento otra bendición en toda mi vida aparte de las bendiciones que ya he recibido de la mano de Dios, no tendría ninguna razón posible para no estar rebosante de gozo hasta el día de mi muerte. Dios ya me ha dado tanto por lo cual estar agradecido, tanto para inducir mi alma al deleite, la alegría y el gozo, que debería ser capaz de vivir sobre la base de ese excedente de bendición y permanecer gozoso todos los días de mi vida.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo tener gozo en mi vida?, Spanish Edition

“Perdimos el paraíso cuando nos alejamos de Dios y cada persona siguió su propio camino. Así que hoy en día, cuando llamamos a la gente a la conversión, todavía es apropiado pensar en ello como un “regreso a casa”, un retorno a donde estábamos originalmente, en la presencia de Dios, en comunión con Dios, y en sumisión a Dios. El llamado al arrepentimiento es un llamado al retorno, un llamado a volver a casa.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

“Buscad al Señor mientras pueda ser hallado. Llamadlo mientras esté cercano. Que el malvado abandone sus pensamientos y el impío sus caminos. Pues él tendrá misericordia. Él tendrá misericordia. Él tendrá misericordia y abundante perdón”.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

“James 1:13 specifically says that God tempts no one. God may test, but He never tempts to evil. A test is for growth; temptation is toward evil. Not”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“Solo en el contexto del ateísmo podemos hablar de la inexistencia de blanco y negro.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“The disciples were slow in grasping the expediency of Jesus’ departure. They resisted His determination to go to Jerusalem and took umbrage at His announcements of His coming death. Between the resurrection and the ascension, new light dawned on them as they”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Just as the Word of God is used in conversion, so it is a critical instrument in our spiritual growth. By immersing ourselves in the Word of God, we begin to gain the mind of Christ and learn what discipleship is.
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― R.C. Sproul, Five Things Every Christian Needs to Grow

“of Drs. Clowney, Packer, Sproul, Norman L. Geisler, Harold W. Hoehner, Donald E. Hoke, Roger R. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard around the clock to prepare a statement that might receive the approval of a great majority of the participants. Very special attention”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“We may be tempted to trust in many things that are not God: ourselves, the church, our friends, or our labors. But our trust must rest ultimately in God, who alone is trustworthy in the ultimate sense.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Does God's Law Apply to Me?

“God is the source of primary causality; in other words, He is the first cause. He is the Author of all that is, and He continues to be the primary cause of human events and of natural occurrences. However, His primary causality does not exclude secondary causes. Yes, when the rain falls, the grass gets wet, not because God makes the grass wet directly and immediately, but because the rain applies moisture to the grass. But the rain could not fall apart from the causal power of God that stands over and above every secondary causal activity. Modern man, however, is quick to say, “The grass is wet because the rain fell,” and he looks no further for a higher, ultimate cause. Twenty-first-century people seem to think we can get along just fine with secondary causes and give no thought to the primary cause. The basic concept here is that what God creates, He sustains. So, one of the important subdivisions in the doctrine of providence is the concept of divine sustenance. Simply put, this is the classical Christian idea that God is not the great Watchmaker who builds the watch, winds it up, and then steps out of the picture. Instead, what He makes, He preserves and sustains. We”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“The Christian protest against abortion is motivated by the positive implications of the command—not only does the law say, “You shall not kill,” but the meaning of the law as Jesus set it forth means, “You shall do everything in your power to promote life.” One thing we know for certain is that abortion does not do that. It does not promote the sanctity of human life. The embryo in the womb is an actual human life, so it is worthy of the full protection that we would give to any other innocent human life.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Does God's Law Apply to Me?

“Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Can I Be”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“In discussions among the participants at the summit and because of requests to the Draft Committee, there was considerable sentiment for striking the words “sixty-six canonical books” from the early drafts. This was due to some variance within Christendom as to the exact number of books that are to be recognized within the canon. For example, the Ethiopic Church has included more books in the canon than sixty-six.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“If we reflect on a being who is eternal, who generates the power for everything else that exists, including ourselves, we should be moved to worship Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“Feminists need to ask why the "sexist" establishment supports abortion. It may be that abortion enhances the male's freedom to exploit by sparing him from the worry ofpaternity.
-Bill Crouse”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Walking the narrow way involves not a distorted mental attitude but a clear understanding of what righteousness demands.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Hypocrisy has a devastating impact on the life of the church and on the representation of Christianity to a dying world. And”
― R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

“if you are not spiritually reborn, you are not a Christian. It is necessary to be reborn to be a Christian.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Does It Mean To Be Born Again?

“When the wisdom writer says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, he is saying this: If we want to acquire actual wisdom, the absolute, essential starting point at which we begin and continue that quest is in a posture of reverence and adoration for God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Biblical Wisdom?

“way for us to spend time with Him, to praise and thank Him, and to make our requests known to Him. Afterward, when we get up from our knees, we watch the providence of God work in our lives. In short, we see God answering prayers. What does that do to our faith? It strengthens it. That’s why prayer is a very important means of grace.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“Three burdens dominated the thinking of the original philosophers: first, a quest for “monarchy”; second, a quest for unity in the midst of diversity; and third, a quest for cosmos over chaos. Though these quests may be distinguished at one level, at a different level all three involve the search for a metaphysical answer to the physical world.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World

“Whatever else abortion does, it does not promote the life of the unborn child.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Lo único que hay que hacer es reacomodar nuestra conciencia para que se ajuste a nuestra ética.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo puedo desarrollar una conciencia cristiana?

“La fe es también el medio por el cual vivimos en respuesta a los mandatos de Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“Albert Einstein noted, “God does not play dice.”
― R.C. Sproul, What's in the Bible: A Tour of Scripture from the Dust of Creation to the Glory of Revelation

“concepto básico aquí es que lo que Dios crea, él lo sustenta. Por lo tanto, una de las subdivisiones importantes de la doctrina de la providencia es el concepto de sustento divino. En palabras simples, esta es la clásica idea cristiana de que Dios no es el gran Relojero que fabrica el reloj, le da cuerda, y luego sale de escena. En lugar de eso, él preserva y sostiene aquello que crea.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Controla Dios todas Las Cosas?

“There is a war in the Christian life between flesh and spirit. We still battle with the flesh, but the battle is not with our physical body. It may include that, but the battle between the flesh and the spirit is the battle between the old man, who is fallen and corrupt, and the regenerated person, who is now living by the Spirit of God. Paul”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“El fervor es un elemento apropiado de la oración activa. No así el frenesí. Existe una delgada línea entre ambos.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?