R. C. Sproul
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.Collection: Problem
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.Collection: People
I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.Collection: Life Changing
I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.Collection: Integrity
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.Collection: Christian
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.Collection: Wrath
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.Collection: Sea
The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.Collection: Passion
We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.Collection: Servant
It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.Collection: Believe
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.Collection: Love
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.Collection: Men
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.Collection: Prayer
Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.Collection: Christian
There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.Collection: Needs
Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.Collection: Christian
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.Collection: Jesus
The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.Collection: Word Of God
God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.Collection: Income
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.Collection: Mistake
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.Collection: Christianity
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.Collection: Heart
Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.Collection: Christ
God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.Collection: Order
Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'Collection: Wrath
Sin is cosmic treasonCollection: Sin
As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.Collection: Baby
For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.Collection: Salvation
Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.Collection: Men
Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.Collection: Prayer
The God of popular religion is not holy.Collection: Holy
When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.Collection: People
It's a sin to bore people.Collection: People
The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.Collection: Exercise
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.Collection: Cynical
If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.Collection: Absolutely Nothing
The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.Collection: Christian
If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.Collection: Would Be
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.Collection: Christmas
Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.Collection: Sin
We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.Collection: Problem
When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'Collection: Teaching
It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.Collection: Jesus
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.Collection: Clouds
Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?Collection: Holiness
There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.Collection: Names
Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.Collection: Understanding
I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.Collection: Believe