John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

When men have tried all that this world can give and find still a heart unsatisfied, they are ripe harvest for the gospel. Sinners everywhere, millions of them, have in their bosom the unrest and disillusionment that make them hunger for what can be found only in Christ. They may not know what they need, but they know instinctively that they need something. And you and I know that Christ is the answer, and we ought to take Him as the balm in Gilead, the ease for every heartache, the satisfaction for every void in the human heart. Such a hunger in the hearts of sinners proves that we can have revival. - John R. Rice

Young people as well as old die. And young as well as old fear death. A girl, thirteen, came to Christ in one of my services in Texas, and then after she had fully trusted the Saviour and had assurance of forgiveness, she dried her eyes, smiled and said, "Now I will never be afraid to go to sleep any more!" - John R. Rice

Jonah preached to Nineveh; and his message given of God, was, "Forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jonah 3:4). All the silly talk that preachers should give "a positive message" by which modernists and pussyfooters mean a soft message that pats sin on the back, and doesn't hurt anybody's feelings, and never names a sin, nor calls sinners to repentance--that kind of talk ignores the clear teaching of the Word of God. And this so-called "positive preaching" which never names a sin, nor condemns it, nor calls Christians to forsake their backsliding, nor sinners to repent, never did bring a revival and never will. - John R. Rice

The classic revival test, II Chronicles 7:14, says, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." Actually that whole verse speaks of prayer. If God's people shall first "humble themselves," they simply get on praying ground. Then when they pray, they ask for specific things. Then 'they seek God's face' they simply keep on pleading with God, begging God, waiting on God in prayer. And when they 'turn from their wicked ways' they are simply removing the hindrances to prayer. Prevailing prayer is the secret of revival. - John R. Rice

So I come to the Scripture with a testimony of thousands who knew the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour, who found forgiveness and peace and joy and daily victory through long years. I have the testimony of uncounted thousands of Christians who have found that God's promises were all true. I have the evidence of thousands of lives transformed from sin to holiness of life. Do you wonder that I come to the Bible with an open heart to believe what I find? - John R. Rice

Once I had two young women go through Young's Analytical Concordance and mark the times in which we are clearly told that God spoke to somebody telling him what to say or what to do, and I think there are some eighteen hundred cases listed in the Scripture. The Bible expressly says, not once but literally hundreds of times, that the man writing is writing the very words of God. In any other book in the world except the Bible, such talk would be counted purest nonsense. But it is not nonsense in the Bible. The Bible ACTS like the Word of God, which it is. - John R. Rice

God is a little jealous of His own work. God doesn't want you to be so concerned about His work that you have no time for Him. - John R. Rice