R. C. Sproul, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Idols #Mirrors #Scratches
The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Jesus #Air #Bird
We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Who We Are #Remember
The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Jesus #Thrones
Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Treasure #Lovers #Losing
The truth is that the sole reason we donâ€™t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#School #Magic #World
I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Suffering #Calling #Kingdoms
Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Christian #Mean #Sheep
The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Use #Kingdoms #Needs
More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Jesus #Abortion #Ambassadors
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Matter #Realization #Nostalgia
Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Believe #Giving #Expectations
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Responsibility #Age #Feels
Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Heart #Adventure #Ordinary
I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Sin #Accusing #Sinning
Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Children #Thinking #Different
It is false to say that what we donâ€™t know canâ€™t hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we donâ€™t know about the Bible is what we do know that just isnâ€™t so.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Hurt #Needs #Said
God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Accomplishment #Christ #Pleasure
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasnâ€™t wicked.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Men #People #Wicked
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

#Reading #Long #Devil

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