Quotes from R. C. Sproul

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

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

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.

If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

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.

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

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.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

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

The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.