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“That God allows a human being to treat me unjustly is just of God. While I may complain to God about the human, horizontal injustice I have suffered, I cannot rise up and accuse God of committing a vertical injustice by allowing the human injustice to befall me. God would be perfectly just to allow me to be thrown in prison for life for a crime I didn't commit. I may be innocent before other people, but I am guilty before God.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Many still look at the kingdom of God as something in the unfulfilled future. But the kingdom has begun. Why? Because the King has been enthroned.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Work of Christ: What the Events of Jesus' Life Mean for You

“I know inwardly that I do not love Christ totally. But at the same time I do know that I love him. I rejoice inwardly at the thought of his triumph. I rejoice inwardly at the thought of his coming. I will rejoice at his exaltation. I know that none of these sentiments that I find in myself could possibly be there if it were not for grace.”
― R.C. Sproul, Chosen by God

“Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not thereby delivered from all pain and misery. Indeed, as we shall see, we His people are called to participate in His suffering.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes what He starts. He does not abort His handiwork in the middle of its creation. He does not leave us staring at walking trees.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“faith is central to the motivation of the human heart to live in a way that honors God.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“The call to repentance is a call to return, a call to go back home.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Repentance?

“Rebirth is instantaneous. Justification is instantaneous. But sanctification is a lifelong process. It involves a diligent struggle against a multitude of obstacles.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification

“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God

“The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.”
― R.C. Sproul, What Is Faith?

“For the Christian, there can be joy in the midst of suffering, joy that transcends the pain of the moment. But we don't really understand the grounds for this joy in the house of mirth. We discover it in the house of mourning. It is in weeping that we learn to contemplate the goodness of God. It is in mourning that we discover the peace of God that passes understanding.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“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?

“if God is not sovereign, God is not God. If there is even one maverick molecule in the universe—one molecule running loose outside the scope of God’s sovereign ordination—we cannot have the slightest confidence that any promise God has ever made about the future will come to pass. This,”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Control Everything?

“John Wesley señaló una vez que él no tenía en mucha estima a los ministros que no pasaban al menos cuatro horas diarias en oración.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Puede la oración cambiar las cosas?

“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 the Bible is the Word of God, not mere human speculation, and if God himself declares that there is such a thing as predestination, then it follows irresistibly that we must embrace some doctrine of predestination.”
― R.C. Sproul, Chosen by God

“Do you not know that God dwells in light inaccessible? We weak and ignorant creatures want to probe and understand the incomprehensible majesty of the unfathomable light of the wonder of God. We approach; we prepare ourselves to approach. What wonder then that his majesty overpowers us and shatters!"'-”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Nu există nicio cale prin care să putem să înțelegem cu adevărat ce înseamnă să fim oameni până când nu înțelegem mai înainte caracterul lui Dumnezeu.”
― R.C. Sproul, Are People Basically Good?

“Then God stooped to earth and carefully fashioned a piece of clay. He lifted it gently to His lips and breathed into it. The clay began to move. It began to think. It began to feel. It began to worship. It was alive and stamped with the image of its Creator.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“Foundational thinking cares about the difference between truth and falsehood because it cares about good and evil.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World

“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.”
― R.C. Sproul

“We have all heard evangelists quote from Revelation: "I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with Me." Usually the evangelist applies this text as an appeal to the unconverted, saying, 'Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. If you open the door, he will come in.' In the original saying, however, Jesus directed his remarks to the church. It was not an evangelistic appeal.

So what? The point is that seeking is something that unbelievers do not do on their own steam. The unbeliever will not seek. The unbeliever will not knock. Seeking is the business of believers. Edwards said, "The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life." Seeking is the RESULT of faith, not the cause of it.”
― R.C. Sproul, Chosen By God: Know God's Perfect Plan for His Glory and His Children

“When human beings failed in obedience to the law of God, God did not just annihilate them. He gave them a promise of future redemption, and He covered their nakedness, which foreshadowed the ultimate covering of our spiritual nakedness that is accomplished by the garments of the righteousness of Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

“We may go to the house of mirth, to a party, where we have fun, kick back, have a good time, and enjoy entertainment. Parties are not all that serious; we don't have to be contemplative in order to enjoy ourselves there. Certainly there is a time to laugh, a time to dance, a time to celebrate-a time to have a party. But how much do we learn in those circumstances? Times of mirth do very little for the good of our souls.”
― R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life

“There is no such “mother” as Mother Nature. Nature itself is powerless to produce life of any kind. In itself, nature is barren. The power to produce life resides in the Author of nature—God. To substitute nature as the source of life is to confuse the creature with the Creator. All forms of nature worship are acts of idolatry that are detestable to God.”
― R. C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

“To be spiritual has only one real purpose. It is a means to an end, not the end itself. The goal of all spiritual exercise must be the goal of righteousness. God calls us to be holy. Christ sets the priority of the Christian life: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matt. 6:33). The goal is righteousness.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

“The ancient maxim still applies: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” To any serious thinker, and especially to the professing Christian, an unexamined life is not an option.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World

“If our decisions about how to treat others are always motivated by love for God, a singular love for God, we really do not have to worry about the law, because the law reflects what is pleasing to God. That is why Augustine said, “Love God and do what you want.” If you love God, you can do as you please, because you will be doing what pleases God. It is that simple. If you really love him, you will be pleased by what pleases him, and what pleases him is revealed to us in his law.”
― R.C. Sproul, Romans

“Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?