QUOTES OF THE WEEK

One preacher said to me some time ago, Oh, Dr. Rice, these are terrible days we are in now." Terrible days when you have a Saviour, and Jesus is born, and has raised from the dead, and you have a Gospel for sinners? No! No! - John R. Rice

Some fellow says, "Now, Brother Rice, I am an educated man. I have been off to college. I have read a book or two. I just can hardly believe all the Bible."
You know there is no fool like an educated fool. You don't believe the Bible. The plain, simple truth is, you have never investigated it. The man who doesn't believe the Bible - remember what Jesus said about him in Luke 24:25-27:
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Jesus said a man is a fool who is slow of heart to believe, who doesn't believe the prophets. - Rice

Here is the crucifixion of Jesus. I remind you again that Christmas is not just to glorify the birth of Jesus, but the birth of a Saviour. Not a beautiful baby in the cradle" "Isn't He cute? Let me cuddle the Baby, and tickle His chin, and see Him smile." No: here is God come to mankind! Here is Heaven emptied of its glorious Jewel in order to save sinners! And Jesus must be crucified. - Rice

Some like to talk about Jesus as an Example. A senior in a great university one time said to a preacher, "Now, Preacher, I am not interested in all that about the blood; I take Jesus as my Example. I want to set out to live like Jesus."
The preacher said, "All right, fine. Now this is what you must do if you are to take Him as an example. The Bible says, 'Jesus did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.' Now =, can you start there?"
The man said, "No. I have sinned."
"Then you do not need an Example; you need a Saviour." - John R. Rice

Are we to sit in judgment upon such passages [that we can neither understand nor explain], and put them down to mistakes due to the ignorance or carelessness of the writers? or reverently to remember "whatsoever things were written aforetime [whether we can understand them or not] were written for our learning" (Rom. 15:4), not for our criticism? - Sidney Collett

And I should like to ask those who say, "The way of the Lord is not equal" (Ezek. 33:14-16), whether it is not infinitely more merciful thus to warn sinners clearly and plainly concerning the inevitable consequences of sin, than it would be to allow them to rush blindly on to their doom unwarned and uncheck? - Collett

To my mind the wave of lawlessness, of immorality, of irresponsibility that is sweeping this country today is directly the result of taking the Bible from the schools and neglecting it in the homes! - Gene Stratton Porter