R.C. Sproul Jr. > Quotes

“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“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., Believing God

“I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics.
When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., Biblical Economics: A Complete Study Course

“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., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“The call to delight in our heavenly Father is not one that can be rightly obeyed with bootstrap effort. One cannot grimly determine to rejoice in the grace of God. The only way to rejoice the way David did is to be overcome with emotion. David's joyous dance was true to who he was and true to how he felt about God. It was David becoming like a child, so much so that he insisted on giving in to his willingness, even his eagerness, to become undignified.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God has put us in. This is why my dear wife vacuums the floor, for it is part of the garden she has been called to dress and to keep. But she is doing this not as raw duty, but because she understands that she is exercising dominion over the dust, for the glory of Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., Bound for Glory: God's Promise for Your Family

“Daily I witness my spiritual betters in my own children. When the snows come, I see ice crystals falling, slick roads, and rising heat bills. They sit at the window in awe of God's creativity. When nighttime falls and the stars shine, I muse about burning balls of hydrogen. They join the dancing of the spheres in celebration of God who made them. When our family sits down to eat, I envision a cluttered kitchen and dishes needing to be washed. They see daily bread delivered by their faithful heavenly Father.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“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.

“Too often, however, we "honor" God by creating our own law, making ourselves more pious than Him. God says, "Don't eat," and we say, "Don't touch." God says, "Give ten percent," and we say, "Give twenty
percent." Like the Pharisees before us, we add to God's law, then expect Him to pat us on the back. This problem of seeking a piety greater than God's, however, gets no uglier than when we apply it to ourselves.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., Believing God: Twelve Biblical Promises Christians Struggle to Accept

“The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., Bound for Glory: God's Promise for Your Family

“Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., Bound for Glory: God's Promise for Your Family