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“Cercetarea voii lui Dumnezeu poate fi un exercițiu al evlaviei sau al lipsei de evlavie, al supunerii smerite sau al aroganței groaznice – în funcție de ce anume voie a lui Dumnezeu căutăm să aflăm.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Know God's Will?

“The only reason we’re redeemed is not because of our value but because of the value of Christ. God is gracious to us in order to reward One who does deserve a reward—His only begotten Son. This involves a strange intersection of grace and justice. It is just that Christ should receive an inheritance, and we are that inheritance. That we are the inheritance is grace for us and justice for Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Predestination?

“argument.I take the position that the best starting point for apologetics is with the existence of God.If we can establish the existence of God first, then all the other issues of apologetics become easier to defend.Others believe that it is better to establish the authority of the Bible first.If the authority of the Bible is established, it clearly affirms the existence of God, the reality of creation, the deity of Christ, and so forth. Other apologists prefer to argue from history.They first try to prove the deity of Christ and then reason back from Jesus to the existence of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“¿Quién fue el mayor profeta del Antiguo Testamento?”. Algunos dicen Elías; algunos dicen Isaías; otros insisten en Jeremías. Finalmente yo digo: “No, el mayor profeta del Antiguo Testamento fue Juan el Bautista”. A veces nos olvidamos de que si bien leemos sobre Juan el Bautista en el Nuevo Testamento, él vivió antes de que Jesús inaugurara el nuevo pacto en el aposento alto la noche de su traición. Así que la economía del antiguo pacto se extendía desde el principio en el huerto del Edén hasta el momento de la Última Cena.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Qué Es el Bautismo?

“Idle speculation about God is a fool’s errand. If we wish to know Him in truth, we must rely on what He tells us about Himself.”
― R. C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

“El pecado es cualquier falta de conformidad con la ley de Dios, o transgresión de ella”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Controla Dios todas Las Cosas?

“Nevertheless, we can make a distinction between the three persons of the Trinity, because each member of the Godhead has unique attributes. We say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but we don’t say that the Father is the Son, the Son is the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Spirit is the Father. There are distinctions between them, but the distinctions are not essential, not of the essence. They are real, but they do not disturb the essence of deity. The distinctions within the Godhead are, if you will, sub-distinctions within the essence of God. He is one essence, three subsistences. That is about as close as we can get to articulating the historic doctrine of the Trinity.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is The Trinity?

“we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“nuestra principal función es engrandecer al Señor. Asimismo, debemos adorarlo, no adularlo, como si quisiéramos “disponerlo” para nuestras súplicas.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“We then project that onto God, as if we can come into His presence in a cavalier spirit of familiarity, the kind of familiarity that breeds contempt. It is true that we are given access to God by virtue of the work that Christ has accomplished for us, but our justification does not change God’s character. The fact that He has saved us and adopted us into His family does not mean that He has stopped being holy or eternal, or that He has stopped dwelling in light inapproachable. If anyone should understand the glorious majesty of God, it is the believer. We should not be cavalier or casual when we come to him. When we see the inapproachable light, we should react as Isaiah did.”
― R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Systematic Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith

“whereas classicists argue that proof for the existence of God is conclusive and compelling. It is actual proof that leaves people without any excuses whatsoever.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“distinguished academic career, Dr. Sproul helped train”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“So, James is exhorting us to count it all joy even when it is not all joy, not because it is joyous to be involved in pain and suffering, but because God can bring good through that pain and suffering. He is working in even the difficult situations for our sanctification.”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Have Joy In My Life?

“the turn of a single word. He also said that not a jot or a tittle of the law will pass away until all is fulfilled (Matt. 5:18). He meant that there is not a superfluous word in the law of God or a word that is open to negotiation. Every word carries”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust the Bible?

“Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Prayer, like everything else in the Christian life, is for God’s glory and for our benefit, in that order.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?

“transform my game. I would be so excited to go out on the golf course and try this key, and I would be thrilled”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Lose My Salvation?

“The only righteousness that is holy enough to satisfy the demands of God’s law is the righteousness of Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, Growing in Holiness: Understanding God's Role and Yours

“we are often surprised that God allows such deep affliction to befall us. The surprise stems not so much from what God leads us to believe but from what we hear from misguided teachers. The zealous person who promises us a life free from suffering has found his message from a source other than Scripture.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“I have committed many sins in my life. Not one of my sins has ever made me happy.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness. If we are justified, we must also be sanctified.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“To turn God’s wrath away, everyone would go without food for a particular period of time as a national sign of repentance.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“The Sea of Galilee is like an enchanting woman whose moods are fiercely changeable.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“La única razón por la que podemos perseverar es porque Dios nos guarda. Si de nosotros dependiera, podríamos caer en cualquier momento; Satanás podría zarandearnos como a trigo. Nuestra confianza en el capítulo final de nuestra salvación descansa en las promesas de Dios de terminar lo que ha comenzado. Descansa en la eficacia de nuestro gran Sumo Sacerdote quien intercede por nosotros todos los días. Él nos guardará.”
― R.C. Sproul, Todos Somos Teólogos

“When the will is enchained as the slave of sin, it cannot make a movement towards goodness, far less steadily pursue it. John Calvin”
― R.C. Sproul, Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will

“place in the fall of 1979, with Drs. Geisler, Hoehner, Nicole, and Radmacher in attendance. It was the consensus of those present that we should not undertake to modify a statement that so many people had signed, both at the summit meeting and afterward. But
in order to ward off misunderstandings and to provide an exposition of the position advocated by the ICBI, it was thought desirable to provide a”
― R.C. Sproul, Can I Trust The Bible?

“No one seeks for God,” Paul says (v. 11b). No natural person, outside of regeneration, searches for God. People are desperately seeking peace of mind, relief from guilt, meaning, significance, and value to their lives. All the while, they’re running as fast as they can from God. God is not hiding; it’s not that He can’t be found. It’s not our nature to seek God—it is our fallen nature to flee from Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“The zealous person who promises us a life free from suffering has found his message from a source other than Scripture.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, f there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers 1 or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30 who will not receive g many times more h in this time, and in i the age to come eternal life.”
― R.C. Sproul, ESV Reformation Study Bible

“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