R. C. Sproul
The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.Collection: Men
It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.Collection: Men
We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.Collection: Victory
Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.Collection: Men
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.Collection: Events
When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.Collection: Voting
To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.Collection: Hands
The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.Collection: Jesus
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.Collection: Perspective
The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.Collection: Father
The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.Collection: Views
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.Collection: Culture
Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.Collection: Goal
The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.Collection: People
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Collection: Cancer
We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.Collection: Grace
Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.Collection: Men
Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.Collection: Eternity
If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.Collection: Grace
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.Collection: Christian
The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.Collection: Jesus
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.Collection: Wrath
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Christian
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.Collection: Garden
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.Collection: Faces
In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.Collection: Reality
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.Collection: Running
If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".Collection: Would Be
In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?Collection: Prayer
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.Collection: Christian
The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.Collection: Beautiful
We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.Collection: Christ
Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.Collection: Pharisees
The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"Collection: Way
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.Collection: Culture
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?Collection: Christian
Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.Collection: Jesus
Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.Collection: Meaningful
The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.Collection: World
I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.Collection: Jesus
God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.Collection: Fall
The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.Collection: Law
Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.Collection: People
To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.Collection: Party
In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.Collection: Capacity To Love
Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.Collection: Grace
There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.Collection: Holiness