John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

I pray that God will keep within me a sensitive heart that when I do wrong I will hate it, that He will keep within me a tender heart to feel, when I displease Him, a need to confess the sin and forsake it. I tell you now, you are about ruined and gone when you go on in sin until your heart gets hard. - John R. Rice

God's righteousness is always vindicated when God lets sin bring judgment. If God ever let sin go unpunished, it would mean that God was not right. You cannot blame God for saying that sin has to be punished. - John R. Rice 

I am against sin; I hate sin. A man who does not hate sin does not love right. If God did not hate sin, God would not love righteousness. If God Himself were not against sin, He could not be for right. He could not be for good if He did not hate sin. - John R. Rice

The Scripture says, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:10-11). The Bible says, "...that in all things he might have the preeminence" (Col. 1:18). If God cannot save men from Hell, then God will drag them out of Hell and make them honor Jesus Christ anyway. That is coming. - John R. Rice

My last word is this: Don't you see that Pharaoh hardened his own heart? He hardened his heart about God, about the cries of little children, about poor, weeping mothers whom he had bereaved and torn their little ones from their arms. As the hard thud of whips fell on the backs of those he had enslaved, he hardened his heart toward their pain. God said, "All right, you like a hard heart. I will harden your heart Myself and let you be stubborn until I lead you out into the middle of the Red Sea, and then I will turn the water loose on you and I will show you." And God did. You had better not harden your heart. You had better listen to God tonight. You wise guys like Pharaoh, who will not listen to God-if He sends any trouble to you and pleads with you in mercy and goodness and kindness, He is giving you a chance. Are you ignoring it? You wise guys like Pharaoh, remember Proverbs 29:1 : "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." - John R. Rice

Don't you see God wants to save tonight? God wants to have mercy. God meant it for good. Do not ever blame God when sinners go to Hell.Why would Pharaoh blame God when he died after eighty years of murder and wickedness and sin? And why do you blame God when you have heard preaching all your life, when you have had the Bible, when on the radio the gospel has been going forth? You have had people praying for you; you have heard sweet gospel songs, and you have turned it down. Do not blame God when you have turned down every appeal and hardened your heart, and you go to Hell. Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your heart. Turn and be saved today. This is a sweet message: God loves you; Jesus died for you. Turn and be saved tonight. Will you be saved tonight? You can be. - John R. Rice

Cursing is a terrible sin. It is one sin that makes a fool out of a man. A man can "cuss" and "cuss" until he is nothing but an "old cuss." - John R. Rice