John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Christian, it is right for you to long for holiness of heart. It is right for you to pray, as the song says, "More Holiness Give Me." It is right to pray, "O God, set me apart for Yourself more and more so I can please You in everything." It is right for you to seek to hunger and thirst after righteousness. So the word "sanctification" for a Christian doesn't mean you have attained all you want. It means you hunger and thirst for God and you are set apart for Him and you are going to Heaven one day. He will take you and finish the work that He has begun in you. - John R. Rice

A Christian belongs to the Lord. Years ago in Texas, Dr. J.B. Gambrell was editor of The Baptist Standard, and he had a famous message in The Baptist Standard, "Who Owns the Wool?" And his argument was very simple about the Christian and his money. He who owns the sheep owns the wool. And if God owns the Christian, then He owns all his time. He owns all his money. He owns all his family. A Christian ought to say, "All I am, all I have belongs to god. I want to use it for Him." - John R. Rice

You belong to God and He has a right to tell you what to do. - John R. Rice

The Holy Spirit came into the bodies of Christians the day Jesus rose from the dead: now the Spirit of God lives in the body of every Christian. And so you don't need to say, "Holy Spirit, come live in me," but you need to say, "Holy Spirit, fill me, Lord, anoint me. Lord, give Your holy power upon me." A Christian has a right to pray for God's power. We are commanded to seek the power of God and we are commanded to be filled with the Spirit. - John R. Rice

Oh, we need an enduement of power! I am not talking about speaking in tongues. God isn't either. It is true that at Pentecost, since Jews were there from out of every nation under Heaven, they spoke sixteen different languages as they are listed in Acts, chapter 2. God then gave people power to preach to people in their own tongue in which they were born. Not some unknown tongue in the sense of a heavenly language. No, God gave them natural languages which these people had not learned, so they could preach the Gospel. - John R. Rice

I read somewhere about a fellow who wrote about "The Tongues of Ecstasy." He did not get that idea from the Bible. Any time I speak for Jesus and He gives me souls, that is wonderful. But He is not talking about a useless jabber. On the contrary, He is talking about an enduement of Power from God that everybody can have. And may God give us heart to seek and to have this power to win souls. - John R. Rice

Every Christian should set out to live for God and grow in grace and knowledge of God, and then set out to have the power of God and witness to souls day by day. Why don't you set a quota for yourself and make plans to win many, many souls to God and so have a great rejoicing when you meet Jesus? - John R. Rice