John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

I found during World War II that when our soul-saving literature was used on ships taking soldiers away to the battle zones, many, many were saved. They felt they must face possible death and ruin, and many were saved. But I found when others were returning home, chaplains who used the same literature did not find as good a response. People who are happy, well and prosperous with no sense of need do not turn to the Saviour as quickly as those who feel the great need and the great danger. So money and wealth can be a snare. - John R. Rice

A man must come to Christ, not as a rabbi, a teacher, not even as a good teacher, not even as the best teacher in the world or the best man, but as the Son of God, the Perfect, Sinless, Blameless Lamb of God who took our sins upon Him and died. No one gets saved who doesn't come to Jesus, taking Him at face value, as all He claimed to be. In John 8:23,24 Jesus said, "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in yours sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." - John R. Rice

There is no way to get saved unless you believe that Christ is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God, as He claimed to be, and rely on Him. - John R. Rice

One who would reach Heaven must see himself a poor, lost sinner. No one but sinners ever get saved. For whom did Jesus die? "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," says 1 Timothy 1:15. Oh, if you want to be saved you must get in line with those who feel their guilt and come asking for mercy like the publican in the Temple who said, "God be merciful to me a sinner." - John R. Rice

God furnishes the Saviour and all you have to do is furnish the sinner. - John R. Rice

All the sacrifices of the Old Testament pointed to one holy Sacrifice. The bullock represented the burden-bearing Savior. The scapegoat pictured the One who would carry the sins of mankind. The mourning turtledove pictured the "Man of Sorrows." The pure and white pigeon symbolized the purity of Christ. The lamb pictured the innocent, defenseless One dying without a murmur for the guilty (John 1:29). But all these were not enough; they only pictured an innocent One who had not yet come. - John R. Rice

If God and men are yet strangers and enemies, it is no fault of God's. He has provided Himself a Lamb which pays for man's sins. He has anointed His own Son to be a High Priest to make intercession for us. - John R. Rice