Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miroslav Volf

If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.

Miroslav Volf

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

R. A. Torrey

To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.

R. A. Torrey

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

R. A. Torrey

One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man whom we greatly admire. No man and no woman, no matter how good, can be safely followed. If we follow any man or woman, we are bound to go astray. There has been but one absolutely perfect Man on this earth-the Man Christ Jesus. If we try to follow any other man we are surer to imitate his faults than his excellencies. Look to Jesus and Jesus only as your Guide.

R. A. Torrey

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

R. A. Torrey

I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

R. A. Torrey

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

R. C. Sproul

To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

R. C. Sproul

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?

R. C. Sproul

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

R. C. Sproul

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

R. C. Sproul

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

R. C. Sproul

Right now counts forever.

R. C. Sproul

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

R. C. Sproul

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

R. C. Sproul

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

It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

R. C. Sproul

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

R. C. Sproul

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

R. C. Sproul

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

R. C. Sproul

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

R. C. Sproul

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

R. C. Sproul

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

R. C. Sproul

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

R. C. Sproul

The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.

R. C. Sproul

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

R. C. Sproul

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

R. C. Sproul

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

R. C. Sproul

In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

R. C. Sproul

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

R. C. Sproul

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

R. C. Sproul

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.