Friday, April 06, 2018

John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

If one reads this who is not a Christian and if you have anybody that loves you, anybody who prays for you, anybody who weeps over you, anybody who cares enough to warn you, then in Jesus' dear name, I beg you, stop and listen, and be saved. It is the call of God! Instead of anger, you ought to have the profoundest and humblest gratitude that God loves you enough to give anybody to warn you. You ought to go down on your knees in thanksgiving that God cared enough to give you a mother to weep or a wife to plead or a friend to warn or a man of God, perhaps even a stranger, to preach to you or give you a tract. I say to you now, earnestly and fervently, that God Himself calls through the voice of His people. - John R. Rice

To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny His deity. To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny historic Christianity. To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny the Bible. To deny the resurrection of Christ is to place one's self beside the infidels and scoffers. If Bob Ingersoll and Tom Paine were to join a church and put on clerical robes, yet believe and preach their infidelity, that would not make them Christians. So, infidels in the church today are not Christians. Those who deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ deny Christ and Christianity. - John R. Rice


We do not like trouble. We shrink from sorrow. We cannot feel that there is any good in suffering. Men have a feeling that suffering is always because God does not love us, or because He is angry with us. But oftentimes God's tender love for us prompts Him to seek our hearts through breaking them. - John R. Rice


"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby" (Heb. 12:11). "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth" (Heb. 12:6). Have you been having trouble? Have you had unemployment, or disease, or poverty, or disappointment, or slander? Then God does not hate you, but He loves you, and as tenderly and earnestly as He knows how God is wooing your heart toward Him. Oh! turn to Him today and listen while He calls. "The Master is come, and calleth for thee." As certainly as He sent Martha to call the weeping Mary, Mary with her broken heart, just so surely God is calling you through your disappointment, through your poverty, through your trouble. God does call through trouble. - John R. Rice


There are those who know little of God's dealings, and little about His Word, who insist that God has nothing to do with the death of our loved ones. I have heard the shocking and blasphemous statement, that it would be a cruel and unjust God who would take home to Heaven a little baby in order to call a mother or father to repent and be saved. Such talk is not only wicked; it is silly. For a little baby, safe in the arms of Jesus, to be taken home to Heaven, where it will never sin, where there will never be sorrows or disease or death- that is no cruelty but an infinite blessing. I believe that but for the great mercy of God toward us who remain, He would take all the little ones that way, and I know that God does call through the home-going of our loved ones. - John R. Rice


You say there are hypocrites in the churches, and you have no confidence in them. Well, there was a hypocrite among the first twelve apostles, and it would not be surprising if there were hypocrites in the church today. I think there are, since churches are made up of human beings. But your salvation is not settled by the churches, it is settled by what you answer to this question, "What shall I do then with Jesus?" I am for the churches. Jesus Christ Himself gave orders to start the churches. If you do not like it, tell Him. Churches are not all they ought to be, but still the best people on the earth are in the churches. the gospel of Jesus Christ comes thru the churches. it is the church people who spread Bibles, send missionaries and preach the gospel. But fortunately, you do not have to settle all that is wrong with the churches. You simply have to say yes or no to Jesus Christ. - John R. Rice

Perhaps you are one of those who hate preachers, who say they are all after money. Well, no doubt a few are money-minded, as were Judas Iscariot and Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, and false prophets in the Bible. But fortunately, you do not have to accept or reject preachers. That is not your problem. You must do something with Jesus Christ or go to Hell forever! - John R. Rice

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