395 Quotes by R.C. Sproul

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there’s no such thing as sin?

We do not “find” God as a result of our search for him. We are found by him. The search for God does not end in conversion; it begins at conversion. It is the converted person who genuinely and sincerely seeks after God. Jonathan Edwards remarked that seeking after God is the main business of the Christian life.

I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.

How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t. Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him.

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

Modern man has lost any sense of God’s nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

The life of faith is not just about believing that God exists; it is about believing God or trusting God.

When we find ourselves depressed, down, irritated, annoyed, or otherwise unhappy, we need to return to the source of our joy, and then we will see those circumstances that are sapping our joy in perspective. The circumstances of this life will pale into insignificance when compared to that which we have received from God.