“Right now counts forever.”1
“Faith…involves trusting in the future promises of God and waiting for their fulfillment.”
“In the New Testament, love is more of a verb than a noun. It has more to do with acting than with feeling. The call to love is not so much a call to a certain state of feeling as it is to a quality of action.”
“God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.”
“Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him… To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.”
“Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.”
“The Christian life requires hard work. Our sanctification is a process wherein we are coworkers with God. We have the promise of God’s assistance in our labor, but His divine help does not annul our responsibility to work (Phil. 2:12-13).”
“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.”
“Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people – for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.”
“It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.”
“The most violent expression of God’s wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.”
“Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”
“To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the ‘mind of Christ.’ We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty.”
“I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.”
“It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine.”
“The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.”
“The kingdom of God is not our only inheritance. In His last will and testament, Jesus left His heirs something else, something very special: ‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (John 14:27).’”
“The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.”
“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.”
“When I read the Bible, the Bible criticizes me, I don’t criticize the Bible.”
“Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.”
“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 honour and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.”
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below:
24 R. C. Sproul Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
Faith With the Lights On…
by the Tempered Apologist
Sproul comes at you like a man who’s done the math and isn’t interested in your excuses. “Right now counts forever” is a one-line sermon that puts steel in your spine and a stopwatch in your pocket.
Sproul defines faith as trusting God’s future promises while you wait (which is basically spiritual adulthood.) He insists love is mostly action, not a Hallmark feeling.
Then he swings the apologetic hammer where it belongs: the Cross, cosmic treason, and the sheer weight of sin, not the fluffy stuff that sells well.
What I like about this “Thought Provoking Quotes” set by Curt is how it refuses to let Christianity become either brainless comfort or cold argument. Sproul can tell you not to be anxious about tomorrow while still demanding you think about tomorrow (because wisdom plans, it doesn’t panic).
Sproul can preach sanctification as hard work with God’s help (coworkers, not couch potatoes), and still torch the pride in us that wants to “earn” grace like we’re paying off a loan.
And when Sproul talks about scholars “correcting” Scripture, he’s not anti-intellectual, he’s anti-arrogance: if the Bible is God’s Word, we don’t stand over it, we stand under it.
Sproul’s quotes help sharpen what Blattman is already doing: apologetics is never about standing over Scripture with a red pen, but instead, standing under it and letting God correct us.
Evidence matters, but Sproul keeps the center of gravity where it belongs: faith is trust in God’s promises over time, and grace is what resurrects a heart that would otherwise keep negotiating terms.
Conclusion: Blattman stacks the case for the Light. Sproul reminds us the Light isn’t just something you can argue toward, it’s Someone who turns the lights on inside you.
Evidence can point you to the Light; only the Light can teach you to see.