JOHN R. RICE QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Sometimes people say, "I feel as if the Holy Spirit has left me." It may be that you have grieved Him and He doesn't talk to you. It may be that you don't pay Him any mind, but He is there always. It is wrong for a Christian not to enjoy this great truth: the Spirit of God lives in me. - John R. Rice

I keep getting long distance calls and letters from people saying, "Oh, I'm afraid I have committed the unpardonable sin." I tell them what I tell you: anybody who has trusted Christ cannot commit the unpardonable sin because his sins are already pardoned. Anybody who wants to be saved can be saved. The only people who ever get bothered about the unpardonable sin are those who didn't commit it. The unpardonable sin makes it so one doesn't care, is not interested. Those who commit the unpardonable sin are not going to take Jesus. - John R. Rice

It is not wrong to face great controversies and settle them by the Word of God. Christian people must have both doctrine, morality and duty settled on the plain Word of God. - John R. Rice

If you ever get settled in your heart the Bible doctrine of sin and see that all of us are sinners, then you will see that no person could ever be saved by being without sin and that no Christian could ever keep himself saved a minute. If sin would cause a Christian to lose salvation, then the sin that is ever present in the heart, hidden from consciousness, perhaps, but there just the same, would damn every one.- John R. Rice 

Sin does not pay. It burns and blights and curses all it touches, whether it be a child of God or an unconverted unbeliever. And God whips His child for sin. I am not minimizing sin nor taking up for it. I am defending the grace of God which saves unworthy sinners and gives them everlasting life so that God does not even charge up the sins of a Christian to him, but charges them up to Christ. Thus we rejoice in salvation by grace and we are kept by grace. - John R. Rice

There is not a single verse in the Bible that says a child of God will ever be lost. There are many warnings to beware of falling into sin and losing our reward and joy. There are many warnings that God will punish His children when they sin, but not a single statement that He will send one of His children to Hell. And the Bible never tells about a single case of a man who was ever saved and then died and went to Hell. Do not change Scriptures to make them contradict other plain Scriptures. - John R. Rice 

In the Bible, the word "church" sometimes means a local congregation like "the church of God at Corinth," or "the churches of Galatia," or "the churches of the Laodiceans." A local congregation is a church in the Bible sense. It is a called-out assembly.The Bible also uses the word "church" to refer to the whole body of Christ, including all the saved whose names are written in Heaven.
Christ is the head of this church. Everyone who is converted thus becomes a part of that heavenly body that will be called out and assembled in Heaven when Jesus comes. All the saved of all ages will be in that church. - John R. Rice