Quotes by R.C. Sproul

“What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artists sub...”

“I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.”

“Gods sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.”

“I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a techniqu...”

“Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking...”

“There are times when we suffer innocently at other peoples hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on t...”

“When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summ...”

“If you dont delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your sou...”

“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine sovereignty. All suffering comes within the broader context o...”

“The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that its too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His prese...”

“As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”

“The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust.”

“The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he w...”

“Ive often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but...”

“How we understand the person and character of God the Father affects every aspect of our lives. It affects far more than what we normally call the "religious" aspect of our lives. If God is the Cre...”

“Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.”

“If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.”

“Satans chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.”

“The redeemed of God who are snatched from the flames by the hand of the Lord are still covered with ashes. We remain streaked with charcoal and blemished with soot. We are redeemed, but not sinless...”

“The theater of Gods redemption is this world. It is to this world that God came in Christ. Christ refused to allow His disciples to hide in an upper room with the doors locked because of fear. No t...”