Inspirational Quotes by R. C. Sproul
“observed: “The petitions of true disciples are echoes (so to speak) of Christ’s words. As He has spoken so they speak. Their prayer is only some fragment of His teaching transformed into a supplication, and so it will necessarily be heard.”[50]”
“In a word, the Lord’s Prayer is the greatest martyr on earth (as are the name and Word of God). Everybody tortures and abuses it; few take comfort and joy in its proper use.”
“At midnight, we look out over Egypt. It is darkness; there is no light anywhere; everyone is fast asleep. Suddenly, on the horizon we see a bright light descend from heaven, a destroying angel sent to pass through Egypt. We see the angel pausing at every house for just a moment, moving swiftly through, as Peter says, “as a thief in the night” (2 Pet. 3:10). Are you ready for that angel of death? Are you prepared? Or is death going to be the greatest shock of your life? In the darkness of midnight, the Lord smites all those who are not sheltering under the blood of Christ.”
“Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. Prayer changes us profoundly.”
“People, particularly in America, are conditioned to think of Christianity only in terms of the new Testament. I'm sure this is why we have a crisis of morality in the church and the pervasive presence3 of an antinomian theology and behavioral system. Simply put, we have woefully neglected the old Testament, just as if there is nothing but discontinuity between the two testaments.”
“[W]e can discern principles in the patterns of worship that God revealed from heaven to His people in the Old Testament, and that those principles can and should inform the patterns our worship follows.”
“Our understanding of worship is truncated if we see it completely apart from its Old Testament origins.”
“God plays for keeps. He wants our hearts, our souls, our lives. He wants us to make the seeking of His kingdom the main and central business of our lives. He doesn't want us to play with religion, to dabble in church, or to simply write a check. he wants us -- body and soul.”
“[W]e are saved by two things -- the death of Christ and the life of Christ. The death of Christ covers our sin, but the life of Christ provides the merit and the righteousness that we must have in order to enter into heaven. So Jesus' life is as important for us as His death. He lived to fulfill all of the law of God.”
“Worship is not simply an experience of feeling; it must involve an understanding of the mind. That's why, in Protestant worship, so much attention is given to the centrality of the reading and preaching of the Word of God.”
“The Christian faith is like a stool with three legs, and those three elements of the faith are the good, the true, and the beautiful.”
“Our church buildings and our church services should be marked by visible beauty, so that we might be reminded of the glory and beauty of God.”
“It is an undeniable truth that when musical forms and styles change in the secular world, the new styles inevitably find their way into the church.”
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Robert Charles Sproul was an American Reformed theologian and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries and could be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally. Under Sproul's direction, Ligonier Ministries produced the Ligonier Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which would eventually grow into the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, of which Sproul, alongside Norman Geisler, was one of the chief architects. Sproul has been described as "the greatest and most influential proponent of the recovery of Reformed theology in the last century."