JOHN R. RICE QUOTES OF THE WEEK

May God help us by the sorrow of others to learn how precious are our children! If you have your children by you, well and strong, thank God! As I got up in the night recently to see if my little ones were well covered and warm, my heart went out to God in gratitude that He had given them to me - that they were mine, that they loved me, that they are healthy an well. Do not neglect your children! Take time to rear them carefully, to train them well, to discipline them strictly, to win them to Christ. - John R. Rice

The poorest little home where godly, healthy, moral children grow up is happier tonight than the richest home that has lost its children, either by death or by sin. And if a broken family circle here causes such sorrow, what will it be like in Heaven if the family circle is broken there, too, if loved ones are missing in Glory? - John R. Rice

Those who do not like "deathbed tales" had better learn to like them for one of these days each one will have a deathbed scene of his own, all his own! - John R. Rice

A man stood in Olton, Texas, and said to me, "I have done all sorts of sins these other people mentioned, but the worst thing I ever did was that all my life, until three o'clock this morning, I turned down Jesus Christ." He was right. That is the meanest thing he could have done. - John R. Rice 

My friends, immorality never pays, and the nation that endorses sin in its rulers and puts its seal on it will have the curse of God upon it, to face sooner or later. David did. War, bloodshed, division came out of it. Ruin, adultery followed with unceasing, heart-rending trend until David went to his grave. - John R. Rice

If there is a girl here tonight who does not want to become a harlot and lose her virtue, who does not want to have heartache and heartbreak, who does not want to fall into ruin, don't open one little gap for the Devil. Don't drink the first glass of beer. Don't get on the dance floor. Don't run with the Devil's crowd. Don't go with an unsaved man or even a backslidden Christian. Don't let down the bars in one particular. That is one way sin takes possession, and you are a slave to sin. - John R. Rice

My friends, you don't know where sin will end! Brother, nobody is ever safe who takes one step on the road to sin. O people, turn your back on it! Flee to God for mercy. - John R. Rice