John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

What should we ask for when we pray? That is answered many times in the Bible. We are to ask for everything we want! Anything that you have a right to want, you have a right to ask for. Every Christian should take every desire to God in prayer. It is a sin to want anything that you cannot honestly pray for, and you should ask God to remove the desire, if it is wrong. And if the desire itself is not wrong, then you ought to ask God to fulfill it! - John R. Rice

Some Christians make the mistake of never separating from unsaved sinners. They are not a peculiar people. They are like Lot down in Sodom, who called the men of Sodom "Brethren" and lost his testimony so that "he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law" (Gen. 19:14). We should not be conformed to this world. It is true that we are in the world and must have contact with sinners, but we should not live as they do. Saved people must be different if lost people are to come to us for the bread of life. - John R. Rice

Christ never went against the Bible. The Bible never goes against Jesus Christ. - John R. Rice

I KNOW God answers prayer. He has answered mine in thousands of instances. The answers to prayer have been so definite, so clearly out of the realm of probability that an unbiased investigator must be convinced that these answers to prayer were really the supernatural intervention of a loving God Who works miracles for His children when they trust Him. Others ought to tell what God has done for them, and so i ought to tell what God has done for me. - John R. Rice

Oh,  Christians should be glad to suffer for Jesus.
These days are not crowning days; these are cross days. And these are days to go outside the camp to Jesus bearing His reproach. And "if we suffer, we shall also reign with him" (II Tim. 2:12). - John R. Rice

Oh, marriage out of the will of God is a tragedy unspeakable. And always a marriage of a saved person and a lost person is out of the will of God. - John R. Rice

Psalm 119:63: "I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts." Of course there are none who perfectly, without a sin or failure, keep the precepts of God. But God loves and counts the heart intent and the holy desire here, and so should we.
In other words, I am for God's people who believe the Bible, who love Jesus Christ, who try to win souls. I am against the crowd that is against Christ and the Bible. - John R. Rice