R. C. Sproul
R. C. Sproul
Robert Charles Sproulis an American Calvinist theologian, author, and pastor. He is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministriesand can be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally. "Renewing Your Mind with Dr. R.C. Sproul" is also broadcast on Sirius and XM satellite radio. In late July 2012, a new Christian internet radio station called RefNet was also announced by Ligonier Ministries in an effort to reach "as many people as possible"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth13 February 1939
CountryUnited States of America
R. C. Sproul quotes about
Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
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.
The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.
For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.