How Should I Live In This World? Quotes

“Etica este o știință normativă care caută să descopere fundamentele esențiale care descriu obligațiile, sau ce trebuie să facă omul. Ea are de-a face în primul rând cu lucruri imperative și cu premisele filozofice pe care sunt bazate imperativele. Moralitatea este o știință descriptivă, care se concentrează pe ceea ce omul face. Etica definește ceea ce oamenii trebuie să facă, în timp ce moralitatea descrie ceea ce oamenii fac în realitate. Diferența dintre ele este diferența dintre normativ și descriptiv.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“When theonomy is abandoned for autonomy, the biblical description of that action is sin. It is the creature's declaration of independence from his Creator.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Además, como criaturas caídas, tendemos a considerar como más importantes aquellas virtudes en las que hemos logrado cierto nivel de éxito. Es natural que me guste pensar que mis puntos de fortaleza moral son los más importantes y que mis debilidades morales se limiten a asuntos menores.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“Cuando se abandona la teonomía por la autonomía, la descripción bíblica de esa acción es pecado. La criatura declara la independencia de su Creador.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“La ética involucra el tema de la autoridad. El cristiano vive bajo la soberanía de Dios, el único que puede reclamar señorío sobre nosotros. La ética cristiana es teocéntrica, a diferencia de la ética secular o filosófica, que tiende a ser antropocéntrica.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“El abandono de la revelación divina ha llevado a nuestra cultura al caos en el terreno de la ética. Hemos perdido nuestra base del conocimiento, nuestro fundamento epistemológico para descubrir lo bueno.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“Nosotros afirmamos confiadamente que Dios nos ha revelado quién es Él, quiénes somos nosotros y cómo se espera que nos relacionemos con Dios. Él nos ha revelado aquello que le agrada y lo que Él ordena.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?, Spanish Edition

“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

“Ética proviene del griego ethos, que se deriva de una raíz que significa “casilla”, en referencia a un lugar para caballos. Comunicaba el sentido de un lugar para habitar, un lugar de estabilidad y permanencia. Por otra parte, moral viene de la palabra mores, que describe los patrones de conducta de una sociedad determinada.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?

“No es solo cuestión de “hacer lo correcto”, sino de discernir qué es lo correcto.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?

“No es solo cuestión de “hacer lo correcto”, sino de discernir qué”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?

“against what one believes to be the command of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live in This World?

“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?

“En un sentido real, nuestras creencias dictan nuestra conducta. Detrás de cada una de nuestras acciones hay una teoría. Puede que no seamos capaces de articular esa teoría, o ni siquiera estemos inmediatamente conscientes de ella, pero nada manifiesta nuestro sistema de valores con mayor claridad que nuestras acciones.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Cómo debo vivir en este mundo?

“Our labor must not be simply for the acquisition of wealth, but for the glory of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Obviously there must be a relationship between our ethical theories and our moral behavior. In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our behavior. A theory underlies our every moral action. We may not be able to articulate that theory or even be immediately conscious of it, but nothing manifests our value systems more sharply than our actions.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

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― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“A pagan, a person of profound corruption, may do acts externally conforming to the demands of the law. The internal motivation, however, is that of selfish interest or what the theologians call "enlightened self-interest," a motive that is not in harmony with the Great Commandment. Our external deeds may measure up to the external demands of the law, while at the same time our hearts are far removed from God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“For an action to be judged good by God, it must fulfill two primary requirements. The first is that the action must correspond outwardly to the demands of the law. Second, the inward motivation for the act must proceed from a heart that is altogether disposed toward the glory of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“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?

“I am the LoRD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not. . ." (Ex. 20:2-4a, emphasis added). We see that this is not law for law's sake, but for people's sake.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“In the United States, our concept of liberty has changed drastically from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first century. The change has much to do with our understanding of autonomy. Modern man considers the quest for autonomy to be a noble and virtuous declaration of human creativity. From the Christian vantage point, however, the
quest for autonomy represents the essence of evil, as it contains within its agenda the assassination of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“The sovereignty of God deals not only with abstract principles but with real lines of authority. God has the right
to issue commands, to impose obligations, and to bind the consciences of men.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Ethics involves the question of authority. The Christian lives under the sovereignty of God, who alone may claim lordship over us. Christian ethics is theocentric as opposed to secular or philosophical ethics, which tend to be anthropocentric. For the humanist, man is the norm, the ultimate standard of behavior. Christians, however, assert that God is the center of all things and that His character is the absolute standard by which questions of right and wrong are determined.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“One critical factor in this dilemma is the fact that ministers are profoundly pressed to conform to acceptable contemporary standards. The person who comes to the minister for counsel is not always looking for guidance from a transcendent God, but rather for permission to do what
he or she wants-a license to sin. The Christian counselor is vulnerable to sophisticated forms of manipulation coming from the very people who seek his advice. The minister is placed in that difficult pressure point of acquiescing to the desires of the people or being considered unloving and fun-squelching. Add to this the cultural emphasis that there is something dehumanizing in the discipline and moral restraints God imposes on us. Thus, to stand with God is often to stand against men and to face the fiery trials that go with Christian convictions.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“God has not given us specific instructions for each and every possible ethical issue we face, but neither are we left to grope in the dark and to make our decisions on the basis of mere opinion. This is an important comfort to the Christian because it assures us that in dealing with ethical questions, we are never working in a vacuum. The ethical decisions that we make touch the lives of people, and mold and shape human personality and character. It is precisely at this point that we need the assistance of God's superior wisdom.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“We assert boldly that God has revealed to us who He is, who we are, and how we are expected to relate to Him. He has revealed for us that which is pleasing to Him and commanded by Him. Revelation provides a supernatural aid in understanding the good. This point is so basic and
so obvious that it has often been overlooked and obscured as we search for answers to particular questions.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Christianity is not a life system that operates on the basis of speculative reason or pragmatic expediency.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“t the heart of Christian ethics is the conviction that our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right is divine revelation.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?

“Sin is a revolutionary act in which the sinner seeks to depose God from His
throne. Sin is a presumption of supreme arrogance in that the creature vaunts his own wisdom above that of the Creator, challenges divine omnipotence with human impotence, and seeks to usurp the rightful authority of the cosmic Lord.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Should I Live In This World?