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“The apostle said he was "hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed." He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering. Paul freely admitted the pressure he experienced.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victim
of the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to add insult to injury.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“He killed Nadab and Abihu. He killed Uzzah. He commanded the slaughter of the Canaanites. It is as if He were saying, “Be careful. While you enjoy the benefits of My grace, don’t forget My justice. Don’t forget the gravity of sin. Remember that I am holy.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Since joy is a fruit of the Spirit, our sanctification is displayed not only by our love, peace, patience, kindness, and so forth, but by our joy”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Have Joy In My Life?

“cuando Dios ordena algo, su propósito es totalmente bueno.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Controla Dios todas Las Cosas?

“Jesus went on, "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit" (v. 2). This verse sets forth a major emphasis on the relationship of the believer to Christ. Jesus' exhortation throughout this portion of His discourse is that, as Christians, as His disciples, we are to be fruitful. That is, we are to be productive.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.
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― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“La conversión no significa que saltemos instantáneamente del pecado a la perfección, sino que nuestra vida experimenta un retorno fundamental. Desde el momento de nuestra conversión, nuestra vida toma una dirección distinta, de regreso a Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es el arrepentimiento?

“If the cause is apart from me, then I am a victim of coercion. If the cause is from within me, then my choices are self-determined or free.
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― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“Cuando tengas luchas con tu fe, cuando enfrentes la noche oscura del alma, cuando no estés seguro de en qué situación estás con las cosas de Dios, huye a las Escrituras. Es desde esas páginas que Dios el Espíritu Santo te hablará, ministrará tu alma y fortalecerá la fe que él te dio en un comienzo. Acerca del autor El Dr.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“The inspiration of the Bible refers then to the divine superintendence of Scripture, preserving it from the intrusion of human error. It refers to God’s preserving his Word through the words of human authors.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“The glorification of God in heaven brings unspeakable, eternal, uninterrupted joy. Jesus”
― R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

“Scripture teaches that those who are indicted by God at the last judgment, the supreme tribunal, will respond only with silence. Every mouth will be stopped because when God reveals to us the full extent of our transgressions, there will be nothing left to say.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“not prohibit an appropriate quest for literary sources or even oral sources that may be discerned through source criticism, but it draws a line as to the extent to which such critical analysis can go. When the quest for sources produces a dehistoricizing of the Bible, a rejection of its teaching,”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“En esencia, la fe es lo siguiente. No es creer en Dios; es creerle a Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“The Minister’s Burden From the beginning of his ministry to the very end Paul was acutely conscious of the burden that Christ had put upon him as an apostle of God’s gospel. He knew that his duty was to communicate the full counsel of God. That burden has been shared by every earnest minister of the gospel ever since. The pulpit is not a place for the minister to orate or opine on his personal preferences or insights. The pulpit is where the Word of God is to be pro-claimed, and the burden of everyone who stands in it is to make sure that the whole counsel of God is to be given to the people of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher said, “Man is the supreme paradox of all creation.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“Running through the works of the great theologians—like Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Owen, and Jonathan Edwards—is the grand theme of the majesty of God. These men stood in awe before his holiness. This posture of reverence and adoration is found throughout the pages of Scripture itself. Calvin writes: Hence that dread and amazement with which, as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. When we see those who previously stood firm and secure so quaking with terror, that the fear of death takes hold of them, nay, they are, in a manner, swallowed up and annihilated, the inference to be drawn is, that men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. Frequent examples of this consternation occur both in the Book of Judges and the Prophetical Writings [Judg. 13:22; Isa. 6:5; Ezek. 1:28; 3:14; Job 9:4; Gen. 18:27; 1 Kings 19:18]; so much so, that it was a common expression among the people of God, “We shall die, for we have seen the Lord.”7”
― R.C. Sproul, What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics

“Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil.”
― R.C. Sproul, What is the Relationship between Church and State?

“Es a partir de promesas como esta que adquirimos nuestra confianza en el don de Dios de la perseverancia.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Se puede perder la salvación?

“So, Nietzsche said, “Life is meaningless, but have courage anyway.” Jesus also called His people to be courageous in the face of difficulty, adversity, and hostility, but He did not call them to a groundless courage. As we know, Jesus told His disciples, “Take heart” (John 16:33), or, as some translations put it, “Be of good cheer.” However, He did not simply tell them to take heart for the sake of taking heart. He gave them a reason why they ought to have a sense of confidence and assurance for the Christian life. He said, “Take heart; I have overcome the world.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Do the unborn have basic rights that should be protected by constitutional law?”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Our Savior was a suffering Savior. He went before us into the uncharted land of agony and death. He went where no man is called to go. His Father gave Him a cup to drink that will never touch our lips. God will not ask us to endure anything comparable to the distress Christ took on Himself. 'Wherever God calls us to go, whatever He summons us to endure, will fall far short of what Jesus experienced.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“Ya hemos comenzado a analizar uno de ellos: el ministerio de la Palabra. Cuanto más me expongo a la Palabra de Dios, tanto más grande será mi fe. Asimismo, si soy negligente en la lectura de la Escritura, me expongo a que las ideas fluyan desde el mundo secular hacia mi cabeza, lo cual puede atenuar el ardor de mi fe. Entonces necesito regresar a la Palabra. Mientras leo las Escrituras y digo: “Sí, eso es verdad”, mi alma es avivada. Es por eso que necesitamos estar en la iglesia cada Domingo en la mañana y no descuidar tales reuniones (Hebreos 10:24-25). Necesitamos urgentemente estos momentos para concentrarnos en escuchar la Palabra de Dios.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué es la fe?

“Esa es la pregunta del hombre moderno.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Controla Dios todas Las Cosas?

“Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth." (John”
― R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

“We are familiar with the concept of only one teacher in the classroom, but in the ancient educational system, there were two adult officials in the classroom. There was the teacher and there was the pedagogue, or the schoolmaster. The function of the schoolmaster was not to impart information but to be the disciplinarian. He was responsible to discipline the wayward students and cause them to give their attention to the teacher.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Does God's Law Apply to Me?

“And if God isn’t sovereign, then God is not God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Does It Mean That God Is Sovereign?

“But, someone will say, does God not know, even without being reminded, both in what respect we are troubled and what is expedient for us, so that it may seem in a sense superfluous that he should be stirred up by our prayers-as if he were drowsily blinking or even sleeping until he is aroused by our voice? But they who thus reason do not observe to what end the Lord instructed his people to pray, for he ordained it not so much for his own sake as for ours. Now he wills-as is right-that his due be rendered to him, in the recognition that everything men desire and account conducive to their own profit comes from him, and in the attestation of this by prayers. But the profit of this sacrifice also, by which he is worshiped, returns to us. Accordingly, the holy fathers, the more confidently they extolled God's benefits among themselves and others, were the more keenly aroused to pray ...”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“From all eternity, God had a plan to save some, and to accomplish that plan He sent His Son into the world. God gave to His Son a certain number of people, and Christ laid down His life for them. The atonement is efficacious only for those whom the Father gives to the Son.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith