To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
R. C. SproulRead
We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects on the nature of God's grace and emphasizes that while we may experience it abundantly, there are limits to its availability.
R. C. Sproul's quote suggests a complex understanding of divine grace, positing that while it is a gift accessible to humanity from an infinite God, this grace must be acknowledged as not limitless in its application. This encourages a deeper appreciation of grace, prompting individuals to recognize its significance and the necessity for responsible stewardship of such a precious resource in spiritual life.
Themes
GraceInfiniteGodSpiritualityFaith
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon about the importance of humility, one might say, 'We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.'
More from R. C. Sproul
All quotes βIβve 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.
R. C. SproulRead
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
R. C. SproulRead
We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
R. C. SproulRead
Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
R. C. SproulRead
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
R. C. SproulRead
Similar quotes
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.
Charlton HestonRead
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
N. K. JemisinRead
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
MaimonidesRead
If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
RumiRead
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.
John TrudellRead
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Napoleon HillRead