R. C. Sproul
Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.Collection: Men
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.Collection: Men
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!Collection: Heaven
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.Collection: Prayer
We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.Collection: Fall
Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.Collection: Intelligent
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.Collection: Doe
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.Collection: Ifs
We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.Collection: Christian
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.Collection: Prayer
The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.Collection: Light
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.Collection: Sin
The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.Collection: Needs
Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.Collection: Running
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.Collection: Powerful
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.Collection: Funny
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.Collection: Made
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.Collection: Christian
God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.Collection: Order
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"Collection: Atheist
I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.Collection: Alive
The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.Collection: Anchors
The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.Collection: Waste
Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.Collection: Men
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.Collection: Christian
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.Collection: Christian
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.Collection: Wind
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.Collection: Denial
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?Collection: Spiritual
If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Strong
Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.Collection: Heart
Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.Collection: Bible
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.Collection: Jesus
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Christian
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.Collection: Giving
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.Collection: Theology
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.Collection: Dust
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.Collection: Holy
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.Collection: Book
The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.Collection: Anxiety
The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.Collection: News
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.Collection: Christ
We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.Collection: Running
Right now counts forever.Collection: Christian
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.Collection: Glory
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.Collection: Desire
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.Collection: Principles