John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

It is needless to look back and weep over the sins you have honestly confessed and forsaken. It is needless to look forward in fear as to whether you will fall short in the future. You are weak enough, God knows, but His grace is sufficient. -- John R. Rice

One source of light to the Christian is the Bible, the blessed Word of God. The Administrator of this light is the Holy Spirit. A Christian can have the Spirit of God to guide him as he studies the Bible, to bring to his mind the warnings, the promises, the comforts. A Christian can have the solemn rebuke of the Holy Spirit for failure and sin and the sweet comfort of the Holy Paraclete, the Comforter, who is sent alongside to help and to guide us into all truth. -- John R. Rice

Keep short accounts with God! Do not wait until you have backslidden, have lost your joy and have fallen into worldliness and open and coarser sins. Make it a rule of your life that the moment God shows you a failure or sin in your life, that you will confess it and forsake it. Thank God, a small matter is soon mended. -- John R. Rice

It is important for a Christian to memorize Scriptures, to learn what God says and meditate on it in the heart. Then the Word of God, hidden in the heart, comes to the conscience in time of stress and temptation and reminds one, "Don't do that! That is a sin." -- John R. Rice

When some great temptation comes, it is too late to search for God's warning. Hide it in the heart ahead of time, if you would have help when you need it to keep your heart from sin. -- John R. Rice

The really victorious life is the life that is grounded on the Word of God, that feeds on the Word of God, that is cleansed by the blessed Word of God. -- John R. Rice

I do not believe that a Christian can always overcome a temptation when he has deliberately walked into the temptation. -- John R. Rice