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How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5) QUOTES

How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5) QUOTES

1 " Our labor must not be simply for the acquisition of wealth, but for the glory of God. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

2 " typeset: Katherine Lloyd, The DESK Ebook conversion: Fowler Digital Services Formatted by: Ray Fowler Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the The Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked KJV are from The Holy Bible, King James Version. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sproul, R. C. (Robert Charles), 1939-   [Ethics and the Christian]   How should I live in this world? / R. C. Sproul.     p. cm. -- (The crucial "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

3 " For an action to be judged good by God, it must fulfill two primary requirements. The first is that the action must correspond outwardly to the demands of the law. Second, the inward motivation for the act must proceed from a heart that is altogether disposed toward the glory of God. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

4 " A pagan, a person of profound corruption, may do acts externally conforming to the demands of the law. The internal motivation, however, is that of selfish interest or what the theologians call "enlightened self-interest," a motive that is not in harmony with the Great Commandment. Our external deeds may measure up to the external demands of the law, while at the same time our hearts are far removed from God. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

5 " Walking the narrow way involves not a distorted mental attitude but a clear understanding of what righteousness demands. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

6 " the term ethics is often used interchangeably with the word morality. That the two have become virtual synonyms is a sign of the confusion that permeates the modern ethical scene. Historically, the two words had quite distinctive meanings. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

7 " Ethics define what people ought to do; morals describe what people actually do. The difference between them is between the normal and the descriptive. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

8 " Ethics involves the question of authority. The Christian lives under the sovereignty of God, who alone may claim lordship over us. Christian ethics is theocentric as opposed to secular or philosophical ethics, which tend to be anthropocentric. For the humanist, man is the norm, the ultimate standard of behavior. Christians, however, assert that God is the center of all things and that His character is the absolute standard by which questions of right and wrong are determined. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

9 " When theonomy is abandoned for autonomy, the biblical description of that action is sin. It is the creature's declaration of independence from his Creator. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

10 " I am the LoRD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not. . ." (Ex. 20:2-4a, emphasis added). We see that this is not law for law's sake, but for people's sake. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

11 " Man was created with an aspiration for significance, which is a virtue. Man can pervert that drive into a lust for power, which is a vice. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

12 " When I violate one point of God's law, I bring myself into opposition to God Himself. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

13 " t the heart of Christian ethics is the conviction that our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right is divine revelation. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

14 " Christianity is not a life system that operates on the basis of speculative reason or pragmatic expediency. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

15 " God has not given us specific instructions for each and every possible ethical issue we face, but neither are we left to grope in the dark and to make our decisions on the basis of mere opinion. This is an important comfort to the Christian because it assures us that in dealing with ethical questions, we are never working in a vacuum. The ethical decisions that we make touch the lives of people, and mold and shape human personality and character. It is precisely at this point that we need the assistance of God's superior wisdom. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

16 " In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our behavior. A theory underlies our every moral action. We may not be able to articulate that theory or even be immediately conscious of it, but nothing manifests our value systems more sharply than our actions. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

17 " every major discussion of ethics these days begins with an analysis of the chaotic situation of modern culture. Even secular writers and thinkers are calling for some sort of basic agreement on ethical behavior. Humanity’s “margin of error,” they say, is shrinking with each new day. Our survival is at stake. These “prophets of doom” point out that man’s destructive capability increased from 1945 to 1960 by the same ratio as it did from the primitive weapons of the Stone Age to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The thawing of the Cold War provided little comfort. Numerous nations have nuclear arms now or are close to having them. What, besides "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

18 " not just a matter of “doing the right thing” but of figuring out what the right thing is. This proliferation of options generates confusion in our world and, for many, a sense of despair. Will we ever reach a cultural consensus that will stabilize the shifting sands of pluralism? All this talk of “theories of ethics” may "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

19 " Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)

20 " It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is. "

― R.C. Sproul , How Should I Live In This World? (Crucial Questions, #5)