R. C. Sproul

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

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.

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

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

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

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

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

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

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.