Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated. R. C. Sproul More Quotes by R. C. Sproul More Quotes From R. C. Sproul A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough. R. C. Sproul faithful ethics hate Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly. R. C. Sproul growing-knowledge important prayer What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful R. C. Sproul religious christian beautiful The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment. R. C. Sproul punishment perfect hands The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture. R. C. Sproul interpreting scripture principles Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience. R. C. Sproul behave audience sometimes Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview. R. C. Sproul theology worldview calvinism No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son. R. C. Sproul greater suffering son 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. R. C. Sproul names writing book The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own. R. C. Sproul perfect jesus christ The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God. R. C. Sproul holiness-of-god holiness modern Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word! R. C. Sproul sake advice heaven The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth. R. C. Sproul leap-of-faith light darkness The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God. R. C. Sproul christian-life christian life-is Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. 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. R. C. Sproul pride people thinking There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness. R. C. Sproul holiness aliens If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity. R. C. Sproul ifs crosses christianity 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. R. C. Sproul sacrifice beautiful jesus We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us. R. C. Sproul religious faith long The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action. R. C. Sproul choices decision views
