Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance. R. C. Sproul More Quotes by R. C. Sproul More Quotes From R. C. Sproul When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is. R. C. Sproul encounters Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church. R. C. Sproul church gathering people We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it. R. C. Sproul want feelings running It's a sin to bore people. R. C. Sproul bores sin people We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession. R. C. Sproul intercession persevere priests The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable. R. C. Sproul holiness veils men The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire. R. C. Sproul choices views desire We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!' R. C. Sproul woe-is-me shadow light The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil. R. C. Sproul growth christian enemy To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive R. C. Sproul alive sin Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone. R. C. Sproul epidemics crazy prayer Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle. R. C. Sproul cynical cynicism battle Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity. R. C. Sproul hostility estrangement eternity Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together. R. C. Sproul together heart people Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself. R. C. Sproul errors intellectual jesus I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. R. C. Sproul stress bridges numbers The God of popular religion is not holy. R. C. Sproul holy The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today. R. C. Sproul anchors today promise The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people. R. C. Sproul holiness-of-god holiness people Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason. R. C. Sproul treason cosmic sin