John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Excuses! Excuses! Lying, insolent, deceiving excuses! That is all that men offer when they will not have Jesus as Saviour and pretend that it is for some good reason. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 151]

"I am as good as most church members," someone tells me. Perhaps you are. . . . But then, on the other hand, I doubt whether you are as good as church members. You critics, you Christ-rejecters, you who stand outside and point the finger of scorn at church people, let me tell you of a difference between you and them. Church people at least are for Christ, or claim to be, and you are against Him. Most of these in the church want Christ, and you do not want Him. They love Him, and you despise Him. They accepted Him while you rejected Him. They have confessed Him openly while you have denied Him. And every church member who is honest and has really come to Jesus Christ is a thousand times better off than the man on the outside who points the finger of scorn and either derides or imitates the church member. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 151]

"I have doubts about the Bible," or, "How do I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?" That is the kind of excuse that others offer when urged to turn from their sins and take Christ as Saviour. I do not deny that some have doubts about the Bible. But they never earnestly sought to know the will of God about the Bible. They have never tearfully, prayerfully, and with holy zeal, set out to apply the Bible to their daily lives and to seek with humble heart the will of God. I do not have any doubt that some people really doubt the deity of Christ. Why should they not doubt? They have never, with all their souls, sought to find Him, the Fairest among ten thousand, the Chosen of God and the "express image of his person." They have not accepted Christ, so they do not know Him. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 151-152]

Do you know why doubt flourishes in your life? It grows in the seedbed of a sinful heart and a sinful will. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 152]

People do not feel right because they do not do right. People who serve Satan find that he brings doubts with him. Thousands of unbelievers have found that when they submitted their will to God and sought Him with their whole heart, God would reveal Himself. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 152]

Your doubts grow on the stem of your sin! Repent of your sins and seek God, and you will find your doubts will disappear. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 152]

Someone says, "I'll be saved tomorrow. A little later I will turn from my sins. I am not quite ready yet. But when I get established in business, or when I have married and settled down, then I'll be a Christian." Oh, the deceiving of Satan! Do you not hear the sweet word of the Holy Spirit, "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation"? (Heb. 3:7, 8). Tomorrow never comes. The road of By-and-By leads to the town of Never. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 153-154]