John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Some one has foolishly said about salvation, "It is not a sin question; it is the Son question." But it is actually a matter of choice between sin and the Son. A man who never sinned will not need a Saviour. No one can trust Christ for forgiveness without thus acknowledging his sinfulness and turning his heart from sin. There can be no faith without repentance. There can be no consideration of Heaven without facing Hell. There can be no right if there is no wrong. So no one can trust Christ for salvation who does not repent. It is turn or burn. It is repent or perish for every lost person in the world. - John R. Rice

Oh, sinner friend, what is wrong with you is not only your actions and your life, but your heart, your nature, your disposition. Even when you would like to do right, you do not know how, but basically on the great moral question of serving God, your wicked heart wants its own way.
So there is no way we can make some small payment and cover our sins. There is no fine we can pay the Judge and go free. Our attitude toward God is not that of a petty lawbreaker, but of a traitor, of an enemy, an alien, estranged from God, fighting God, running form God!
All that a poor sinner can do to have peace with God is turn his heart from sin and let God fix what the sinner cannot fix. He can hate his sins, but only God can take them away. The sinner can confess and turn his heart from his sin, but only God can make him good. - John R. Rice

At Minneapolis, Minnesota, I sat at the breakfast table in a home where the mother had tried to get her eight-year-old son to eat his food and to behave nicely at the table. He screamed at his mother, "I hate you!"
I told the boy that God said, "He that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death" (Exodus 21:15). That was the way God felt about a boy's rebellious attitude toward his mother.
Turning to me, this eight-year-old hotly said, "I don't want to hear about that!"
And so sinners go away from God because they do not want to hear the Gospel. They do not want their sin reproved; do not want to talk of heavenly things. They are blinded in sin. - John R. Rice

A famine came in the far country [Luke 15:14]. It always does. Sooner or later famine waits for the sinner. Dear lost friend, if you have not come to the famine yet, you will if you go on that road of Christ-rejection. - John R. Rice 

Oh, we should thank God for the famines that come in the land of sin. Maybe otherwise many a prodigal boy would never come to his senses. Oh, thank God that we can find out sooner or later that sin does not pay. Happy are those who do not wait for the bitter dregs of the cup, but repent and seek the Lord before all the poison of the serpent is in their veins and before all the sorrows and want of the famine are experienced! - John R. Rice

The Bible says, "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." And the preceding verse says, "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt" (Isa. 57:20, 21). In the heart of the unconverted, in the heart of a lost man or woman is the seed of famine. There is something that muddies all the water or peace, something that brings discord into all the music. There is some clamor of conscience that takes away satisfaction from the music of this world. - John R. Rice 

The only reason everybody in the world does not turn to the Lord Jesus and love Him and trust Him and be saved immediately is that they are blinded in sin. Satan deceives. He is a liar. He makes white seem black. He makes the bad seem good. He promises joy out of things that are certain to bring sorrow. - John R. Rice