R. C. Sproul Quotes

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

All that seems earth is hell or heaven.

As it was in the beginning, Is today official sinning, And shall be forever more.

Lord Jesus Christ, let it not come to pass that the great multitude of Christian people should hear it said that it was in the days of the Emperor Manuel that the City, with all its sacred and venerable monuments of the Faith, was delivered to the infidel.