36 John R. Rice Quotes

We'll say good night here and good morning up there.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period.

If you were enough like God, someone wouldn't like you.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

His brokenhearted cry on the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," shows God's heart toward sinners.

People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends, yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at Rome!

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... [Spoken in Matthew 7:21-23.]

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

To leave this matter of saving souls to preachers is not only heartless; it is inexcusably wicked.

Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.

You cannot do God's work without God's power.

Present-day wickedness, apostasy and modern civilization cannot prevent revival.

When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.

Every preacher, if he is saved, has this Great Commission. If you don't win souls, you have failed in your Christian life. No one is a good Christian who doesn't win souls. You are not doing the first things He said you were to do after you got baptized. Those who do not win souls are disobedient in the main command of Jesus Christ, and that is not a small matter.

What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!

So, I tell you, it is foolish to expect the infinite God to place the dynamite of Heaven in the careless hands of a Christian who does not know the travail of soul that Christ had, and has not entered into the burden for sinners and the sense of shame over sin.

According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.

Human art and science are employed to make lust appealing, to make drinking popular, to present the world's ungodly standard of morals as the ideal for the young and unsuspecting youth who sees the films. I find that every indictment I made against the movie industry and the theater six years ago (1932) is still true.

I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.

It is better to be sick in the will of God than well outside His blessed will.

The movies spend so many millions of dollars in publicity that no great medium of expression or opinion in America remains uncontrolled.

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.

No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God!

Not till I die or not till Jesus comes, will I ever be eased of this burden, these tears, this toil to save souls.