Can I Be Sure I'm Saved? Quotes

“Actually, one of the most dangerous things we can do as Christians is to determine our theology by our experience, because no one's experience is normative for the Christian life. We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel. Not”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“In thinking about fruitfulness, we must remember that we are not saved by our works. Rather, we are justified by faith alone. Yet we also remember that the magisterial Reformers of the sixteenth century, such as Martin Luther, said we are justified by faith alone but not by a faith that is alone.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“When Jesus speaks of people who are given to Him by the Father, He is referring to the elect. The elect whom the Father gives to the Son are preserved by the Son. That is the basis of our true assurance, not our own ability to persevere. We talk about the perseverance of the saints, and I believe that the saints do in fact persevere, but they persevere because they are preserved by God. So it’s better to speak of the preservation of the saints than the perseverance of the saints. We hear this in Jesus’ appeal to the Father to keep those who have been given to Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“When one is immersed in a Christian subculture that puts a great deal of stress on making decisions, responding to altar calls, and praying the sinner’s prayer, it is easy to miss this important point—making a decision to follow Jesus has never converted anyone. This is because it is not a decision that converts a person; it is the power of the Holy Spirit that does so.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“One can go through the
external motions of a profession but not truly be in possession of the inward reality of salvation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“The more we are in the Word of God, the more the Spirit who inspired the Word and who illumines it for us will use the Word to confirm in our souls that we are truly His, that we are indeed among the children of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“La verdadera fe que nos conecta a Cristo siempre se manifiesta en obras, y si no hay obras al lado derecho de la ecuación, eso nos dice que no hay fe al lado izquierdo de la ecuación.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“Las únicas obras de justicia que sirven para justificar a un pecador son las obras de Cristo. Así que cuando decimos que somos justificados por la sola fe, queremos decir que somos justificados solo por Cristo, por sus obras; nuestras obras no cuentan para nuestra justificación.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“Los que son genuinamente salvos son los que demuestran ser hacedores de la Palabra. Cuando la semilla echa raíz y crece, hay fruto.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“hermanos, mis hermanas, y mi madre” (vv. 49-50). Jesús dice que su verdadero hermano es aquel que hace la voluntad del Padre, no alguien que simplemente toma la decisión de seguirlo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“Jesús habló más del infierno de lo que habló del cielo,”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“Dios el Espíritu Santo cambia la disposición de nuestra alma y la inclinación de nuestro corazón. Antes de la regeneración, somos fríos, hostiles, o indiferentes (que es la peor forma de hostilidad) a las cosas de Dios, y no tenemos ningún afecto honesto por él, porque estamos en la carne, y la carne no ama las cosas de Dios. El amor a Dios es encendido por el poder regenerador del Espíritu Santo, quien derrama el amor de Dios en nuestro corazón (Romanos 5:5).”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“Jesús dice que su verdadero hermano es aquel que hace la voluntad del Padre, no alguien que simplemente toma la decisión de seguirlo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puedo estar seguro de que soy salvo?

“sure I’m saved? Dr. R.C. Sproul answers these important questions, along with more than twenty”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“The biblical standard of goodness is the righteousness of God, and we are judged both by our behavioral conformity to the law of God and by our internal motivation or desire to obey the law of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“I made a brief reference earlier to the first Evangelism Explosion diagnostic question: “Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for sure that if you were to die tonight you would go to heaven?” The second diagnostic question is this: “If you were to die tonight and stand before God, and God were to say to you, ‘Why should I let you into My heaven?’ what would you say?” Once, when my son was young, I asked him these two questions. I was delighted that he immediately answered the first question by saying “Yes.” But when I asked him the second question, he looked at me as if I had just posed the silliest question he had ever heard. He said, “Well, I would say, ‘Because I’m dead.’” What could be simpler? My son was being reared in a home committed to biblical theology, but not only had I failed to communicate justification by faith alone to him, he already had been captured by the pervasive view in our culture that everyone goes to heaven and that all you have to do to get there is to die.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“So all who are elect will become, at some point in this life, regenerate by the Holy Spirit. Likewise, all who are regenerate are numbered among the elect. So if you can be sure of your regeneration, you can be sure of your election; and if you’re sure of your election, you can be sure of your salvation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“Rome claims that most “assurances,” in the final analysis, are based on conjecture, opinion, and ideas that come from the hearts of people whom the Bible defines as deeply rooted in deceit. The Scriptures tell us that the heart is deceitful above all things (Jer. 17:9), so it is easy for us, Rome says, to deceive ourselves and to rest our confidence about the state of our souls on mere opinion. Consequently, assurance of salvation is not possible apart from some special act of revelation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. (Rom. 8:14-17, NKJV)”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“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?

“God does not vacillate on His promises.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“If we rest our assurance on an experience and not on the Word of God, we're inviting all kinds of doubts to assail us in our pilgrimages. We need to seek authentic knowledge of our salvation, not just some warm and fuzzy experience.
It”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?

“point-making a decision to follow Jesus has never converted anyone. This is because it is not a decision that converts a person; it is the power of the Holy Spirit that does so. We get into the kingdom not because we make a decision, walk down an aisle, raise a hand, or sign a card. We get into the kingdom because there is true faith in our hearts.
Don't”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?