R.C. Sproul Jr. Quotes & Sayings

I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin — R.C. Sproul Jr.

No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for President I am officially not going to vote for her. It's official. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.' — R.C. Sproul Jr.

It is false to say that what we don't know can't hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we don't know about the Bible is what we do know that just isn't so. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God has put us in. This is why my dear wife vacuums the floor, for it is part of the garden she has been called to dress and to keep. But she is doing this not as raw duty, but because she understands that she is exercising dominion over the dust, for the glory of Christ. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that? — R.C. Sproul Jr.

More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The call to delight in our heavenly Father is not one that can be rightly obeyed with bootstrap effort. One cannot grimly determine to rejoice in the grace of God. The only way to rejoice the way David did is to be overcome with emotion. David's joyous dance was true to who he was and true to how he felt about God. It was David becoming like a child, so much so that he insisted on giving in to his willingness, even his eagerness, to become undignified. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Just so we're clear the words "free will" are not actually in the Bible. Predestination, on the other hand ... — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Too often, however, we "honor" God by creating our own law, making ourselves more pious than Him. God says, "Don't eat," and we say, "Don't touch." God says, "Give ten percent," and we say, "Give twenty
percent." Like the Pharisees before us, we add to God's law, then expect Him to pat us on the back. This problem of seeking a piety greater than God's, however, gets no uglier than when we apply it to ourselves. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics.
When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid? — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities? — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.' — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Daily I witness my spiritual betters in my own children. When the snows come, I see ice crystals falling, slick roads, and rising heat bills. They sit at the window in awe of God's creativity. When nighttime falls and the stars shine, I muse about burning balls of hydrogen. They join the dancing of the spheres in celebration of God who made them. When our family sits down to eat, I envision a cluttered kitchen and dishes needing to be washed. They see daily bread delivered by their faithful heavenly Father. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now. — R.C. Sproul Jr.