Inspirational Quotes by R.C. Sproul

“God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.”

“Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.”

“The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.”

“I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.”

“It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.”

“When I read the Bible, the Bible criticizes me, I don't criticize the Bible.”

“If I thought even for one moment that a single molecule were running loose in the universe outside the control and domain of almighty God, I wouldn't sleep tonight.”

“To live in coram Deo is to live in the presence of God, being ruled by His authority for the glory of His name.”

“If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.”

“If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere.”

“If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that says, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." The secret to happiness is found in obedience to God.”

“True Christians can have radical and serious falls but never total and final falls from grace.”

“We must add that there is no real conflict between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. It was the Old Testament God whom Christ called "Father." It was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who so loved the world that He sent His one and only Son to redeem it. it was Jesus' meat and drink to do the will of this God. It was zeal for the God who slew Nadab, Abihu, and Uzzah that consumed Christ. It was the God who destroyed the world by a flood who pours the waters of His grace out to us. The false conflict between the two testaments may be seen in the most brutal act of divine vengeance ever recorded in Scripture. It is not found in the Old Testament but in the New Testament. The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain of injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused. If we have cause for moral outrage, let it be directed at Golgotha. The Cross was at once the most horrible and the most beautiful example of God's wrath. It was the most just and the most gracious act in history. God would have been more than unjust, He would have been diabolical to punish Jesus if Jesus had not first willingly taken on Himself the sins of the world. Once Christ had done that, once he volunteered to be the Lamb of God, laden with our sin, then He became the most grotesque and vile thing on this planet. With the concentrated load of sin He carried, He became utterly repugnant to the Father. God poured out His wrath on this obscene thing. God made Christ accursed for the sin He bore. Herein was God's holy justice perfectly manifest. Yet it was done for us. He took what justice demanded for us. This "for us" aspect of the Cross is what displays the majesty of its grace. At the same time justice and grace, wrath and mercy. It is too astonishing to fathom.”

“At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.”

“The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.”

“I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.”

“The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.”

“Nothing betrays our deepest theories more eloquently than our practice.”

“The devil never would attempt to beget in persons a regard to that divine word which God has given to be the great and standing rule. . . . Would the spirit of error, in order to deceive men, beget in them a high opinion of the infallible rule, and incline them to think much of it, and be very conversant with it? . . . The devil has ever shown a mortal spite and hatred towards that holy book the Bible: he has done all in his power to extinguish that light. . . . He is engaged against the Bible, and hates every word in it.”

“We fail in our duty to study God’s Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work.”