Inspirational Quotes by R. C. Sproul

“Like the Chaldeans, Joseph’s brothers were guilty of sin, sin that they personally had wanted to do. But God stands above all human choices and works through human freedom to bring about His own providential goals. That is what Joseph was saying: “You chose to do something sinful, but all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. I”

“Those who are in Me and do not bear fruit are cut off; those who do bear fruit are cleansed, purified, nurtured, and pruned, so that they may become even more productive.”

“We were made for holiness. And when we reject it, we suffer a deprivation—a deep-rooted sense of lostness and restlessness because we are out of sync with the nature for which we were made.”

“The central issue of Christianity is the issue of justification. It faces the dilemma squarely. The only possible way for an unjust person to stand in the presence of a just and holy God is to be justified. If we remain unjustified, we die in our sins. The only way we can be justified is by the righteousness of Christ. He alone has the merit necessary to cover us. That righteousness is received by faith. If we trust in Christ, we are covered by His righteousness and are justified by faith. If we do not trust in Christ, we will stand before God's judgment alone, unjust people before a just God.”

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

“The medical community has the greatest financial vested interest in abortion, which has become at least a billion-dollar business.”

“I remember the story of a distraught father who was deeply grieved by the death of his son. He went to see his pastor, and in his bewildered anger he asked, "Where was God when my son died?" The pastor replied with a calm spirit, "The same place He was when His Son died.”

“The way of suffering was the Father's plan. It was the Father's will. The cross was not Satan's idea. The passion of Christ was not the result of human contingency. It was not the accidental contrivance of Caiaphas, Herod, or Pilate. The cup was prepared, delivered, and administered by almighty God.”

“The beauty of worship is never to be divorced from the truth of worship.”

“nuestra principal función es engrandecer al Señor. Asimismo, debemos adorarlo, no adularlo, como si quisiéramos “disponerlo” para nuestras súplicas.”

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“Desde luego, el conocimiento también es importante porque sin él no podemos saber lo que Dios requiere. Sin embargo, el conocimiento y la verdad serán conceptos abstractos a menos que tengamos comunión con Dios mediante la oración.”

“We need Christ-the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's pattern simply won't do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent”

“El apóstol Pablo expuso las obvias e irrefutables consecuencias de un cristianismo sin resurrección. Si Cristo no resucitó, argumentaba él, nos quedamos con la siguiente lista de conclusiones (1 Corintios 15:13-19): Nuestra predicación es en vano. Nuestra fe es ilusoria. Somos testigos falsos de Dios. Continuamos en nuestros pecados. Nuestros seres queridos que han muerto están perdidos. Somos los más desdichados de todos los hombres. Estas seis consecuencias revelan claramente la conexión interna de la resurrección con la esencia del cristianismo. La resurrección de Jesús es el sine qua non de la fe cristiana. Eliminemos la resurrección y eliminaremos el cristianismo.”

“La Biblia dice que hay ciertas cosas que Dios ha decretado desde la eternidad. Tales cosas sucederán inevitablemente. Si tú oraras individualmente o si tú y yo uniéramos fuerzas en oración, o si todos los cristianos del mundo orásemos colectivamente, eso no cambiaría lo que Dios, en su consejo oculto, ha determinado hacer. Si decidiéramos orar para que Jesús no regrese, aun así él regresaría. Aunque quizá tú preguntarás: “¿No dice la Biblia que si dos o tres se ponen de acuerdo en algo, lo conseguirán?” Sí, eso dice, pero ese pasaje habla de la disciplina de la iglesia, no de las peticiones de oración. Así que debemos tener en consideración toda la enseñanza bíblica sobre la oración y no aislar un pasaje del resto. Debemos abordar el asunto a la luz de toda la Escritura, evitando una lectura fragmentaria.”

“In the Old Testament, worship centered on the altar with the presentations of sacrifices offered to God. For the most part, these sacrifices of animals and various grains were made as sin offerings. In themselves the animal sacrifices had no power to atone for sins. They were symbols that pointed forward to the one great sa.crifice that would be made on the cross. After the perfect Lamb was slain, the altar sacrifices ceased. The Christian church has no provision for animal sacrifices anymore because it has no need for such sacrifices. To offer them now would be to insult the perfection of Christ's sacrifice.”

“People have an appreciation for moral excellence, as long as it is removed a safe distance from them. The Jews honored the prophets, from a distance. The world honors Christ, from a distance.”

“It's dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man-a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.”

“The Sacred and the Profane. Eliade insists that we have never been able to create an existence of pure and utter profanity. He says, "To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.”

“God's holiness is more than just separateness. His holiness is also transcendent. The word transcendence means literally "to climb across." It is defined as "exceeding usual limits." To transcenc is to rise above something, to go above and beyond a certain limit. When we speak of the transcendence of God, we are talking about that sense in which God is above and beyond us. Transcendence describes His supreme and absolute greatness. The word is used to describe God's relationship to the world. He is higher than the world. He has absolute power over the world. The world has no power over Him. Transcendence describes God in His consuming majesty, His exalted loftiness. It points to the infinite distance that separates Him from every creature. He is an infinite cut above everything else.”