The Truth of the Cross Quotes

“God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“Paul was saying
that in all of his teaching, in all of his preaching, in all of his missionary activity, the central point of importance was the cross. In effect, this teacher was saying to his students, "You might forget other things that I teach you, but don't ever forget the cross, because it was on the cross, through the cross, and by the cross that our Savior performed His work of redemption and gathered His people for eternity.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“Old Testament believers were saved by a faith that looked forward, while we are saved by a faith that looks backward. The objective ground for the salvation of both groups is the same-the atonement of Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“The worst thing about hell is the presence of God there.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“We fail to realize that in even the slightest sins we commit, such as little white lies and other peccadilloes, we are violating the law of the Creator of the universe. In the smallest sin we defy God’s right to rule and to reign over His creation. Instead, we seek to usurp for ourselves the authority and the power that belong properly to God. Even the slightest sin does violence to His holiness, to His glory, and to His righteousness. Every sin, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is truly an act of treason against the cosmic King.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“At the heart of Anselm’s answer to that question was his understanding of the character of God. Anselm saw that the chief reason a God-man was necessary was the justice of God. That may seem to be a strange answer. Thinking of the cross and of Christ’s atonement, we assume that the thing that most strenuously motivated God to send Christ into the world was His love or His mercy. As a result, we tend to overlook the characteristic of God’s nature that makes the atonement absolutely necessary—His justice.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“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

“But if people understood that there is a holy God and that sin is an offense against that holy God, they would break down the doors of our churches and ask, “What must I do to be saved?”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“Uma definição simples da justiça de Deus é “seu compromisso eterno e imutável de sempre fazer o que é certo”.”
― R.C. Sproul, A Verdade da Cruz

“When sin is characterized as a crime, we see that Christ is the One Who actually comes under judgment in the drama of the atonement. He functions as the Substitute, the One Who stands in the place of the true criminals-you and me.
Christ, then, is the One Who made satisfaction. By His work on the cross, He satisfied the demands of God's justice with regard to our debt, our state of enmity, and our crime. In light of the facts of God's justice and our sinfulness, it is not difficult to see the absolute necessity of the atonement.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“It is important that we understand that God manifests no enmity toward us. He has never broken a promise. He has never violated a covenant. He has never sworn a vow to us that He failed to pay. He has never treated a human being in this world unjustly. He has never violated us as creatures. In short, He has kept His side of the relationship perfectly. But we have violated Him. We are the ones who violate the creature-Creator relationship.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross

“the more we understand of the holiness and the righteousness of God,
the more we begin to see by contrast how desperately fallen we are and how utterly dependent we are on His mercy and grace.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross