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“la fe ciega como virtuosa. Después de todo, si uno no puede ver, se dice que uno está ciego, así que si la fe es certeza de lo que no se ve, eso debe significar que la fe a la que se refiere el autor es una fe ciega.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“How many times have we heard it said, “Christianity is not a bunch of rules and regulations; it is about a personal relationship”? That is a false dichotomy. Christianity is certainly not rules and regulations alone. At its heart, it is a personal relationship. But that relationship, because it is a covenant relationship, is defined by rules and regulations. It is based on promises and conditions: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15).”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies. His teaching can be heard around the world on the daily radio program Renewing Your Mind.
During his distinguished academic career, Dr. Sproul helped train men for the ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries.
He is the author of more than seventy books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Baptism?

“If I were the devil (please, no comment), one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. Knowing that it is the Word of God, teaching people to know and love and serve the God of the Word, I should do all I could to surround it with the spiritual equivalent of pits, thorn hedges and traps, to frighten people off.”
― R.C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture

“A person who is conscientiously pro-choice must understand that he or she is a legal ally, willingly or unwillingly, with the pro-abortion position. If you the reader have taken a pro-choice position to avoid either extreme camp, you must squarely
face the reality that from a legal standpoint you have chosen the pro-abortion camp.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree. Only once is a characteristic of God mentioned three times in succession. The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy. Not that He is merely holy, or even holy, holy. He is holy, holy, holy. The Bible never says that God is love, love, love; or mercy, mercy, mercy; or wrath, wrath, wrath; or justice, justice, justice. It does say that he is holy, holy, holy, that the whole earth is full of His glory.”
― R.C. Sproul

“Christians have nothing to be smug about; we are not righteous people trying correct the unrighteous. Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread. The chief difference between the believer and unbeliever is forgiveness.”
― R.C. Sproul

“Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods which you have not known” (Deut. 11: 26–28, NIV). The curse is the judgment of God on disobedience, on”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“presupposition”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“God sovereignly, providentially ordains only what is good. In terms of His eternal purpose, God has esteemed it good that evil should be allowed to happen in this world.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“this: “If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“sin non posse, non pecarre—unable not to sin Augustine argued that before the fall, Adam possessed both the ability to sin (posse pecarre) and the ability to not sin (posse non pecarre). However, Adam lacked the exalted state of the inability”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“Paul tells us here in 2 Corinthians that the King of the universe
places His indelible mark on the soul of every one of His people.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“Si bien la regeneración es invisible, debemos tener presente que Jesús dijo que podemos ver los efectos de ella, tal como vemos, oímos y sentimos los efectos del viento. ¿Dónde buscamos las manifestaciones tangibles del nuevo nacimiento? Lo vemos en los frutos de una vida cambiada.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué significa nacer de nuevo? (Preguntas Cruciales)

“we call the editorial plural or the editorial “we,” which a writer or speaker uses to communicate a point. This device is often used by dignitaries; a king, a pope, or another person in high office prefaces his or her comments by saying, “We decree” or “We declare,” even though the person is speaking only for himself or herself. More specifically, there is a Hebrew literary device called the plural of intensity, which calls attention to the depth of the character of God, in whom resides all elements of deity and majesty. So, I believe that the name Elohim is compatible with the doctrine of the Trinity and may be hinting in that direction, but the name itself does not demand that we infer that God is triune”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“God's holiness is more than just separateness. His holiness is also transcendent. The word transcendence means literally "to climb across." It is defined as "exceeding usual limits." To transcenc is to rise above something, to go above and beyond a certain limit. When we speak of the transcendence of God, we are talking about that sense in which God is above and beyond us. Transcendence describes His supreme and absolute greatness. The word is used to describe God's relationship to the world. He is higher than the world. He has absolute power over the world. The world has no power over Him. Transcendence describes God in His consuming majesty, His exalted loftiness. It points to the infinite distance that separates Him from every creature. He is an infinite cut above everything else.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Have mercy upon me, 0 God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight-
That”
― R.C. Sproul, Five Things Every Christian Needs to Grow

“The highest accolade for the hypocrite is human applause.”
― R.C. Sproul, God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children

“Repression is precisely the mental defense mechanism that Paul sees at work. He writes, "Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind" (Romans 1:28). Paul describes this as a universal human phenomenon. No human being wants God.

This, of course, doesn't stop God from existing if he does exist, or from speaking truth if he does speak it. I can repress the existence of sharks, but if sharks exist and I swim where they exist, repression won't save me. The result of trying to repress the existence of God is most unpleasant. God condemns us to sit in our own evil ignorance. We are condemned to depravity because we are determined not to let the knowledge of God penetrate our heads. We will do everything we can to escape it.

In that case, nothing should seem more suspect than our smug certainty that we see no God on the horizon. Psychology has another term for that kind of thinking. It is "delusional.”
― R.C. Sproul, Ultimate Issues

“Wonderland, Alice came to a fork in the road. Icy panic stung her as she stood frozen by indecision. She lifted her eyes toward heaven, looking for”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“The church is called to be semper reformanda, “always reforming.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“The only Christ who can redeem you is the one who really exists, and the only Christ in whom faith will redeem you is the biblical Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, Growing in Holiness: Understanding God's Role and Yours

“In our day, however, we have focused so intently on the immediate activity of cause and effect that for the most part we have ignored or denied the overarching causal power behind all of life. Modern man basically has no concept of providence.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“I am saying it must be good that evil exists, because God sovereignly, providentially ordains only what is good. In terms of His eternal purpose, God has esteemed it good that evil should be allowed to happen in this world.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“This truth must never be abandoned to satisfy philosophical speculation.”
― R.C. Sproul, God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children

“Of course, knowledge is also important because without it we cannot know what God requires. However, knowledge and truth remain abstract unless we commune with God in prayer.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“science. If reality is ultimately chaotic, science itself becomes a manifest impossibility.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World

“We are told today that in the boldness of faith we are to "name it and claim it." I suppose I should be more measured in my response to this trend, but I can't think of anything more foreign to the teaching of Christ. We come to the presence of God in boldness, but never in arrogance. Yes, we can name and claim those things God has clearly promised in Scripture. For instance, we can claim the certainty of forgiveness if we confess our sins before Him, because He promises that. But when it comes to getting a raise, purchasing a home, or finding healing from a disease, God hasn't made those kind of specific promises anywhere in Scripture, so we are not free to name and claim those things.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

“Sometimes we make an artificial separation or distinction between the Old and New Testaments. We talk about the Old Testament as law and the New Testament as gospel, as if there were no law in the New Testament and no gospel in the Old Testament. Paul says at the very beginning that the gospel is not a novelty; it is the same gospel that was promised numerous times before.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans