Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. C. Sproul

Right now counts forever.

R. C. Sproul

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

R. C. Sproul

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

R. C. Sproul

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

R. C. Sproul

It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

R. C. Sproul

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

R. C. Sproul

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

R. C. Sproul

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

R. C. Sproul

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

R. C. Sproul

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

R. C. Sproul

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

R. C. Sproul

The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.

R. C. Sproul

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

R. C. Sproul

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

R. C. Sproul

In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

R. C. Sproul

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

R. C. Sproul

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

R. C. Sproul

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.

R. C. Sproul

It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

R. C. Sproul

We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.

R. C. Sproul

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

R. C. Sproul

The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church

R. C. Sproul

Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

R. C. Sproul

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

R. C. Sproul

If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

R. C. Sproul

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

R. C. Sproul

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

R. C. Sproul

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

R. C. Sproul

Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

R. C. Sproul

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

R. C. Sproul

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

R. C. Sproul

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

R. C. Sproul

It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.