36 Quotes by John R. Rice

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.

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

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

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.

A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.

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!

God is ready and waiting to receive sinners who put their heart’s trust in Jesus and want to be saved, and to pretend that He requires a long period of mourning and sorrow before He will accept a sinner and save him is contrary to the teaching of the Bible.

Any time a Christian is conscious of his sin, judges the sin and takes sides against it with a penitent heart, then he has a perfect right to trust the Lord for instant, complete forgiveness and for perfect cleansing.

If you came to Christ, that was saving faith. Now then He wants you to have faith in His Word for assurance. That is simply to leave the matter with God and believe what He said.