R. C. Sproul
The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'Collection: Christian
The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.Collection: Judgment
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.Collection: Jesus
No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.Collection: Baby
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.Collection: Father
Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.Collection: Heaven
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.Collection: Hands
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.Collection: Sin
Without God man has no reference point to define himself.Collection: Men
We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'Collection: Light
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.Collection: Christian
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.Collection: Stress
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.Collection: Christian
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.Collection: Jesus
It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.Collection: Exercise
One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.Collection: Sacrifice
If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.Collection: Fall
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautifulCollection: Beautiful
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.Collection: Men
The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.Collection: Views
To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.Collection: Loss
It's easy to be an educated fool.Collection: Fool
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.Collection: Father
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.Collection: Calvinism
Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?Collection: Jesus
We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.Collection: Thinking
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.Collection: Church Today
If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.Collection: Disappear
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.Collection: Christian
The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.Collection: Kings
Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.Collection: Overcoming
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.Collection: Passion
The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.Collection: Christian
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.Collection: Heart
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.Collection: Heart
When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)Collection: Depression
The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)Collection: Believe
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.Collection: Saint
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.Collection: Comfort
Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.Collection: Data
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.Collection: Prayer
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.Collection: Idols
God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.Collection: Hell
This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.Collection: Lying
The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.Collection: Spirit
The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.Collection: Thinking
Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.Collection: Needs
We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.Collection: Giving Up
We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.Collection: Running