John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

"ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT BELIEVETH." Again the dear Saviour seems to challenge us to ask bigger things. The father of the child had said, "If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us." But Jesus answered him in effect, "You have the IF in the wrong place. There is no IF about My power or about My compassion. The only IF is whether you will believe. All things are possible to him that believeth"-- to ANYBODY that believeth! - John R. Rice

Does God work miracles today? Yes, He does if He answers prayer! In the very nature of the case the question of answered pray is one of miracles. An answer to prayer means there must be a personal God, Who hears an individual cry, and so orders events that the man who prayed gets what he would not get through natural means if he did not pray. An answer to prayer means that God supernaturally intervenes, and gives what would not be given without this miraculous intervention. - John R. Rice

I say to question whether God works miracles today is unbelief. Yet the question deserves an honest investigation in the light of God's Word and in the light of facts wherever found. And no Christian need ever fear the truth, whether found in the Bible, or in nature, or in history. - John R. Rice

Christianity stands or falls on its miracles. Christianity is a miracle religion. - John R. Rice

Some say that miracles stopped with the closing of the canon of Scripture. But how foolish that is. Men are still born again when they trust in Christ, are they not? Then that is a miracle. Men still have the Holy Spirit dwelling in their bodies, do they not? Then miracles continue! The angel of the Lord still encamps around about them that fear Him and delivers them, does He not? Then there are present-day, living miracles. - John R. Rice

Reverent students have long believed, as I do, that the preservation of the Word of God down through these centuries is miraculous and supernatural. How Satan hates the Bible! The conspiracies of Romish priests, burning multiplied thousands of copies, the putting to death of those that harbored the Bible and insisted on reading it-these could not do away with the Word of God. The assaults of the infidels, the attacks of atheists and modernists-these could not do away with the Bible. It could not be lost through mistranslation, through the errors of copyists, through the awful darkness and ignorance of the dark ages. The Bible has been preserved of God. It lives and abides forever. And that preservation is surely a miracle of God, such as other books do not have. - John R. Rice

Prayerlessness is a horrible sin. For the lost sinner it is part of his wicked rejection of Christ. For the child of God it is identical with backsliding. Prayerlessness is another name for unbelief. Prayerlessness is the father and partner of every vile sin, as much as the saloon is the father of drunkenness and lust is the father of adultery. There is not a vile sin in the world but that prayerlessness is a part of it and that real prayerfulness would have prevented it or cured it. - John R. Rice