QUOTES OF THE WEEK

A good place is a bad place if it keeps you from the best place. - R.B. Ouellette


When a centurion who came to Jesus, asking healing for a servant, humbly said, "Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed," Jesus was greatly pleased and said, "Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel" (Matt. 8:5-10). This centurion was probably an Italian, certainly not a Jew, but he had much to teach Jews as well as Christians!
The division of people into sects and denominations has some good points but it also has great hindrances to the cause of Christ. It is not wrong that people should have strong convictions, and I do not say that Christians should lightly give up their convictions where there are honest differences of opinion about minor doctrines of the Bible. But I do say that God would be greatly honored if Christians love one another, and if Christian fellowship should cross over the boundaries of denominations and sects. - John R. Rice


Many a man intends to be saved, but he intends to be saved tomorrow and tomorrow never comes. He intends to be saved sometime, but his heart gets no more tender with waiting, his mind gets no clearer, his will grows no firmer. The contrary is true. His heart and mind and will harden against God and so he is never saved. Therefore the Scripture here says, "Let us hasten therefor to enter into that rest." Today, look to Jesus, trust in Him and be saved at once. Let Heaven come into your heart. - John R. Rice


It is awfully hard for us to remember that the men with whom we have to deal are poor, frail creatures who even when they would do good often do wrong--- people who, when, they do their very best, are tempted and tried and stressed and blinded and defeated by things we do not know and cannot understand. But while we cannot judge correctly and cannot remember men's frailties, nor even our own, thank God, He does just that. "He remembereth that we are dust." - John R. Rice


Sinner, God sees and knows your heart. Unrepentant sinner, as certain as God is just and truthful, God must bring your sin to remembrance and to judgment!
Oh, the memory of God, how long and how true it is! How sweet is the memory of God when it is a memory of mercy! But how terrible is the memory of God when it is the memory of justice and judgment!
Unsaved man, your sins pile up in the face of an angry God, and He never forgets. Psalm 7:11 tells us that "God is angry with the wicked every day." That is because He never forgets their sins. John 3:36 tells us that "he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God ABIDETH ON HIM." - John R. Rice

Here is the sweet meaning of John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." And no wonder that Romans 4:7, 8 says: "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."
There it is in a nutshell. God cannot remember sin against the sinner who is forgiven, because his sins are not even charged up to him. They are charged against Jesus and paid. God is just who must require sin to be paid for, but God is so just that He cannot require that it be paid for twice. - John R. Rice