John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

I do not wonder that Peter "went out and wept bitterly" after he denied the Saviour. His sin took all his joy. Sin will take away your joy, too, dear reader, if you allow it for a moment, unjudged, unconfessed in your life. - John R. Rice

I am convinced that the only people who do not believe the Bible are those who have not studied it devoutly and tried it thoroughly, and do not know the evidence in its favor, or who have a deliberate and wicked bias against God and the truth. - John R. Rice

The Bible is the infallible Word of God. Christ is the pre-existent Creator, the virgin-born Saviour who died for our sins and rose bodily from the grave for our justification. Believing the Bible, I have no trouble in believing all the historic Christian faith clearly taught therein. - John R. Rice

Most Christians live far below the level of joy and usefulness and provision which God intended His children to have, simply because we do not take everything to God in prayer and ask our Heavenly Father for what we need. - - John R. Rice

Any known sin, unconfessed, unjudged, unforsaken, makes it so that God cannot honorably and righteously give us many of the things we ask and need. God cannot put Himself in the position of endorsing our sins when He answers the prayers of sinning Christians who do not judge their sins and do not turn from them. - John R. Rice

Let every reader search his heart. Are you sure there is not a single known sin unconfessed to come to haunt your prayer life, to offend your heavenly Father, to grieve the sweet Spirit of God who dwells within you? O Christian, how sad when our sins shut up Heaven against our prayers and make it so God cannot hear as He wants to do! - John R. Rice

The holy law of a jealous God is this:

. . . for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments (Exod. 20:5, 6).

That does not mean that God punishes the innocent who do not deserve punishment. It means that a righteous God, giving man free will and choice, cannot keep children from following in the steps of their worldly and sinful parents. So, when parents sin they bring a curse upon their children. The Christian wife is cursed by the sin of the husband. - John R. Rice