357 Quotes by R. C. Sproul

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

Sin is cosmic treason