R. C. Sproul Quotes About Sin
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There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
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Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
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We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
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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.
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Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.
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We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
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To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
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At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
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In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
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The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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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.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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It's a sin to bore people.
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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
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