395 Quotes by R.C. Sproul

I cannot read God’s mind, however I can read God’s Word.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

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

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

If Paul does not mean that all who are called are justified, the only alternative would be that some who are called are justified. If we supply the word some instead of the word all here, then we must supply it throughout the Golden Chain. Then it would read like this: Some of those he foreknew, he also predestined. Some of those he predestined, he also called. Some of those he called, these he also justified. Some of those he justified, he also glorified.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

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 walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father’s house.

The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.