John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

People do not save themselves. They do not keep themselves. People do not partly save themselves by good works, or baptism, or church membership, or giving money, or prayers. They simply trust Jesus Christ and He does all the saving. - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg. 81]

People do not partly keep themselves. They leave the matter with Christ. That is what they have committed to Him, and He who did the saving by grace does the keeping the same way, by grace. People do not deserve salvation when they get it. People do not deserve salvation after they get it. It is by God's grace, and God's power, and on the merits of Jesus Christ, not our own merits. - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg. 82]

We want to be like Jesus. We feel guilty and sad in proportion as we fail to be like Him. But, oh, the sweet and blessed time is coming, as the psalmist said, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness" (Ps. 17:15). - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg. 104]

Let us be sure of this, any honest doubter is invited to come and find out the truth. And, of course, the doubter who does not seek to find the truth, who does not want to know, is not an honest doubter. The scoffer who does not pray, who does not read the Bible, who does not seek the will of God, is not an honest doubter. He is a rebel; he is a deliberate sinner. But the troubled heart that wants to know about Jesus can find out. - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg.111]

We need to understand that salvation is wholly by the grace of God, that God saves people who do not deserve it, and keeps people who do not deserve it, because of His wonderful grace. We should remember that Christ died for our sins, all of them, and that His death on the cross settled for all of our sins before we were ever born and the forgiveness became effective as soon as we would trust the Saviour. - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg. 114]

The only righteousness that will do a Christian any good is the righteousness of Christ and that righteousness is freely given to all who will trust in Him. - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg. 114]

Jesus has never cast out one who has come seeking mercy and forgiveness. He did not cast one out when He came not later when he failed to be all he ought to be. Thank God for His love and for the atoning blood of Jesus and the everlasting promises that we are born into the family of God and He will never leave us nor forsake us. - John R. Rice [A Grand Success of the Christian Life, pg. 115]