R. C. Sproul Quotes About Christian
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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
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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.
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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.
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It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
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Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
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True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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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.
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If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
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Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
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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.
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A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
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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.
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The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.
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What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
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For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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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?
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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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 beautiful
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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