Dr. Robert Charles (R. C.) Sproul (1939—2017) was one of the most influential American theologians during the last fifty years. As an author and apologist Sproul had a wonderful way of making difficult theological concepts understandable to the average Christian. Sproul was a very popular and sought after speaker, wrote more than 100 books, and is one of the most quoted theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Below are just a few of his many notable quotations.1
“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.”
“The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God’s manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists’ problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man’s problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men – Rom. 1:18″”
“Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.”
“There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.”
“Isn’t is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?”
“The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.”
“The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.”
“I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.”
“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.”
“We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.”
“As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
“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.”
“Scripture does not say that God is ‘love, love, love’ or that He is ‘wrath, wrath, wrath,’ but that He is ‘holy, holy, holy.'”
“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 world is filled with God’s glory. You can’t turn without bumping into it.”
“The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.”
“You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.”
“Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”
“When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.”
“The only reason why I’m a Christian is because I’m a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I’ve ever done.”
“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.”
“Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.”
“To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.”
“If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.”
“There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.”
“It’s not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It’s the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.”
“What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself.”
“What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?”
1 TOP 25 QUOTES BY R. C. SPROUL (of 351) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)