“God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.”1
“Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.”
“Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.”
“We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.”
“Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven’s sake, preach the Word!”
“If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.”
“Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God’s Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.”
“Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.”
“God is not going to negotiate His holiness…in order to accommodate us.”
“The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.”
“The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.”
“The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.”
“The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.”
“If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.”
“God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.”
“By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.”
“The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.”
“To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.”
“If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.”
“Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.”
“Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads.”
“God’s grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.”
“If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.”
“People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ’s atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity’s estrangement from our Creator.”
“Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.”
1 All of these quotes are from the website below:
TOP 25 QUOTES BY R. C. SPROUL (of 351) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
The following is an insight the Holy Spirit gave me sometime ago regarding God’s Word:
” Study God’s word, pray God’s Word and by all means get up and do God’s Word!”