Inspirational Quotes by R. C. Sproul

“We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior.”

“The only Christ who can redeem you is the one who really exists, and the only Christ in whom faith will redeem you is the biblical Christ.”

“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 Holy Spirit is not a sourpuss. He is not morose or sardonic. As the Spirit of God indwells the Christian and their personality is shaped by the presence of agape in the soul, one of the results is having a cheerful disposition”

“The only righteousness that is holy enough to satisfy the demands of God’s law is the righteousness of Christ.”

“I find that it is always dangerous to shout where God has whispered.”

“Albert Einstein noted, “God does not play dice.”

“this: “If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?”

“Prayer is not just a tangential or peripheral part of corporate worship. In ancient Israel, the primary function of worship was the offering of prayer. And so it should be in our churches today. Our sanctuaries should be houses of prayer.”

“The key issue is this: Must we have a comprehensive knowledge of God in order to have true knowledge of God? One of the first principles in systematic theology regarding God is the doctrine of His incomprehensibility. This means that no human can now or will ever have a totally exhaustive, comprehensive knowledge and understanding of God. God is infinite in His excellence, and we, even in heaven, will not have an infinite perspective to understand Him. We are finite creatures, and by virtue of our creatureliness, our understanding of God is limited. If, indeed, a comprehensive picture of God were required to have a true understanding of Him, this would mean that we could have no true knowledge of God because we certainly don’t have a comprehensive knowledge of Him. Therefore, the fact that our knowledge of God is partial does not mean that our knowledge is untrue.”

“Jesus did not call the temple a house of sacrifices or a house of preaching. He called it a house of prayer. The temple’s chief designation was that it was to be the focal point of the nation and of the people for prayer.”

“But we cannot have purpose accidentally, and we cannot have intelligence unintelligently. Impersonality cannot produce personality because that would be unintentional intention, and we cannot have intention unintentionally. Just like the concept of self-creation, unintentional intentionality is an absurdity. If there is design in the universe, then this self-existent, eternal something that is responsible for generating the universe as we find it must be a self-existent, eternal, intelligent being, not merely a something. And if it is intelligent, then it must be personal. And if it is personal, we have now moved away from abstractions and have landed squarely on the pages of sacred Scripture.”

“Being righteous is not all that complicated; it means doing what is right. We have to have a passion to do what is right.”

“We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy.”

“Nobody has ever been saved by a profession of faith; you must possess it as well as profess it.”

“The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, whims, or marketing strategies. Pleasing”

“We should be concerned with our environment because God placed man in His garden and made Him responsible to dress, fill, keep, and replenish it. Adam and Eve were not given the right to exploit or abuse the created world. They were, however, made superordinate, not subordinate, to the animals. Animals are here for our well-being. We do not exist to serve them; they exist to serve us, and we are to rule them benevolently. Today, naturalism has replaced God with Mother Earth, and we do more to protect fish eggs than human fetuses. Our priorities are out of order.”

“Pleasing God is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.”

“Christ is the only Mediator because He is the only begotten and divine Son of God, the only God incarnate, and He is alive. No one else can do the work of mediation that He does for us. All those other religious leaders are dead. They were sinners, and none of them had the credentials necessary to reconcile us to God.”

“Our modern worship needs the philosophy of the second glance, an ongoing attempt to make sure that all that we do in worship gatherings is to God’s glory, to His honor, and according to His will. May”