John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Here is the reason that ceremonials laws can change and moral laws cannot. Moral law is intrinsically right of itself because its demands are part of the nature of God Himself.
In ceremonies, then, God can change His dealing with men. In fundamental things having to do with the nature of God, God cannot change His way of dealing with men. As long as He is a God of love, He must love people. As lon...g as He is the Truth and the Light, then He cannot lie. As long as God is a holy God, He cannot sin. As long as He is a God of mercy, He must forgive the penitent sinner. As long as He calls Himself, "O thou that hearest prayer," then he must hear prayer the same. In the matter of hearing praying He is the God of all flesh and nothing is too hard for God. This is fundamental, unchangeable, a part of the nature of God. - John R. Rice

 

 

 

In the law and such matters of ceremony, God deals dispensationally; in prayer God is the same with all flesh, in all ages, and His answer to the prayers of Moses and Israel, camped before the Red Sea, is an encouragement for all who need Him, love Him and trust Him to open their mouths wide for whatever they need. - John R. Rice

 

God will give instantly to all sinners who seek Him saving faith, while there have never been many people given the undoubting faith required for physical miracles in Mark 11:23. Physical miracles have always been more rare than the miracles of regeneration, but one is as certainly promised for this age as the other. - John R. Rice

 

I not talking against science. I am all for true science. I am for the facts, the truth, wherever found. I am just against infidel guesses in the name of science. I am against unbelief and wickedness in the name of science. I am against a so-called science which is based, not on fact, but on the opinion of wicked men. I am for the Bible doctrine of creation as against the theory of men about evolution without God and contrary to the Bible. - John R. Rice

 

So the heavens show orderly progress- a great God, a Creator who made things. You may ask, Is that proof of a Creator?" Certainly. A Ford car is proof of a Ford automobile factory. If there is a watch, that is proof of a watchmaker. If there is a man, that is proof of a Man-Maker. If there is a world, that is proof of a world Creator. It would be silly to suppose that everything happened without t...hought, without plan.
You think this earth came into being with a musical scale, with nobody planning it? And mathematical equations that are worked out in nature, and nobody planned it? And the solar system, and the galaxies held together by invisible bonds and set in paths through the sky, and nobody planned it? You are crazy! - John R. Rice

Then He said in the first chapter of John that Jesus is that Light that lighteth every man that cometh into this world. That doesn't mean that everybody has heard the Gospel, but by the Creator, Jesus, are all things made and without Him was not anything made that was made. So it turns out that some way, in the conscience and in the fear of death and in the sense of guilt and need, everywhere God has spoken to human hearts and so there is no excuse for people to go on without God. There are natural evidences, I say, that there is a Creator, a good God, a mighty God, and that He made man. - John R. Rice

Well, evolution or creation; which is it? Then that means that evolution is against the Bible and Christianity, and the two are not reconcilable. You say, "I know some people who believe in evolution and they are Christians." Well, they are not Christian in their doctrine. A man may be converted and be ignorant. A man may be converted and not learn Bible doctrine. A man may have trusted Jesus Christ and swallow things ignorantly. That is why a lot of false cults come in. But the plain truth is that doctrinally and basically the theory of evolution is against the Bible and against Christianity. They are contradictory. - John R. Rice

-a word of explanation. I am in the process of reading all the John R. Rice books in my library, a chapter a day. I wanted to share some of the nuggets I have been gleaning with others. - Rick