Quotes from R. C. Sproul

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

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

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk.

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

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

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

God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

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.

When God says something, the argument is over.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God's justice.