Quotes from RC Sproul

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.