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R.C. Sproul

R.C. Sproul


Robert Charles Sproul is an American Calvinist theologian and pastor. He is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries (named after the Ligonier Valley just outside of Pittsburgh, where the ministry started as a study center for college and seminary students) and can be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally.

Sproul has been an ardent advocate of Calvinism in his many print, audio, and video publications, and he is also known for his advocacy of the Thomistic and Evidentialist approaches to Christian apologetics and his rejection of presuppositionalism. A dominant theme in many of Sproul's Renewing Your Mind lessons is the holiness and sovereignty of God. Sproul is a prolific author who has written more than 60 books and many articles for evangelical publications.
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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
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Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. 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. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
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Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
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We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
topics: life  
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
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Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
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To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
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The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love." If that is your thought, your god is an idol.
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The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.
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The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
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It's a sin to bore people.
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The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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God is never pleased with ignorant worship, with worship that is not grounded in the knowledge of God.
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Repentance is not just a turning to something, it's a turning from something.
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When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
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To be a Christian is to be a theologian—a student of God and his will. The church is where believers should be nurtured in the practice of correct theology. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
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[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational.
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God is both Just and the Justifier.
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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. How can we be happy if we are not obedient? How can we be obedient if we do not know what it is we are to obey? Thus the top and the tail of it is that happiness cannot be fully discovered as long as we remain ignorant of God’s Word.
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