In the words of R. C. Sproul:
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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.
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.
I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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.
God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
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