John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Many women seem so modest, so virtuous, so kind; they are never suspected of murder. They pass for upright and moral mothers and wives, and only God knows, perhaps that they are the murderesses of their unborn children! Little innocents that never knew the light of day; little ones who died before they were born and yet who had a soul given of God; little ones who ought to have been received with love and care--these will witness at the great white throne judgment against the red-handed murderesses, their mothers! - John R. Rice

No human court can ever give exact justice. The trial may prove that a certain man pulled the trigger and that his bullet killed another man. But the evidence cannot show perfectly what was in his heart. Only God knows the heart. And so God puts down the correct record. - John R. Rice

It is true that people go to Hell because of their sins and that their punishment is proportioned to their guilt and according to their works. And yet in the last analysis people do not go to Hell so much for their sins, for all their lives of sin, as they do for the one sin of rejecting Christ. Every sinner deserves Hell, but a way of escape is offered in Jesus Christ. He has died for every sinner, paid every debt, offered mercy and pardon to every guilty soul. Those who come to God by faith in Christ, His crucified Son, have their names written in the Lamb's book of life. - John R. Rice

Sometimes people pray, "Save us in Heaven, for Jesus' sake. Amen." But that is a foolish prayer. Salvation is obtained in this life, not in the next. The great decision is made now while we live and not after we are dead. One who waits until the last judgment to learn whether he has been saved or not is likely due for a terrible disappointment, for salvation is a present-day matter. - John R. Rice 

One of the most wicked perversions of Christianity is that which would make Jesus smile with sugary sweetness on all sin and all sinners, with no condemnation for sin. Wicked men who do not hold to the historic Christian faith speak of "the meek and lowly Jesus," of His "agape," that is, His love, without any reference to the awfulness of sin, the fury of the wrath of God, the holy requirement of repentance, and the certainty of judgment.
These suave and pious-sounding infidels have a Christ of their own, but it is not the Christ of the Bible. - John R. Rice

We may plainly say that the death penalty is God's own requirement for certain sins, particularly for murder. All the talk that the death penalty does not do any good, does not deter crime, that it is inhuman, that it does not seek the rehabilitation of the criminal, is foolish. Sin ought to be punished. And there is no way to put down crime but by punishing crime. And the death penalty is God's own punishment for certain drastic sins.
Not only in the Mosaic law, but long before that, when Noah came out of the ark and started the civilization after the flood, the plain command was given in Genesis 9:5, 6. - John R. Rice

The marvel of God's greatness can be seen as well through the microscope as through the telescope. The starry galaxies of the heavens, millions of light-years away, are no more wonderful than the world of infinite detail and precision, the unspeakable wonders of life, too small in detail to be seen by the naked eye. - John R. Rice