R. C. Sproul

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

— R. C. Sproul

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

— R. C. Sproul

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

— R. C. Sproul

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

— R. C. Sproul

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some…

— R. C. Sproul

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

— R. C. Sproul

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

— R. C. Sproul

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

— R. C. Sproul

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

— 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…

— R. C. Sproul

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

— R. C. Sproul

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

— R. C. Sproul

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

— R. C. Sproul

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not…

— R. C. Sproul

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

— R. C. Sproul

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

— R. C. Sproul

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

— R. C. Sproul

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

— R. C. Sproul

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

— R. C. Sproul

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

— R. C. Sproul

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

— R. C. Sproul

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

— R. C. Sproul

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

— R. C. Sproul

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

— R. C. Sproul

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.

— R. C. Sproul

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

— R. C. Sproul

You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

— R. C. Sproul

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

— R. C. Sproul

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

— R. C. Sproul

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible…

— R. C. Sproul