R. C. Sproul Church Quotations

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

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.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

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.

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

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.

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.