John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Children are the gift of God. That gift is given at conception. To destroy one of His love gifts surely is sin.
And we have a right to believe that anybody who loves and trusts the Lord will find that God will provide for what He gives and make a way for happiness and success. - John R. Rice

Nothing can eat you up and poison your whole life more than hatred and bitterness. It doesn't really hurt the other person, but it does hurt you.
The Only answer I know is one simple word -- "forgiveness." You decide by an act of your will, not through your emotions or feelings, to forgive the persons or situation that you hate so badly. The Bible teaches us that we can forgive from our hearts. "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses" (Mt. 18:35).
We can forgive in the midst of cruel treatment whether or not the person who injured us asks for forgiveness. - John R. Rice

One preacher said to me some time ago, Oh, Dr. Rice, these are terrible days we are in now." Terrible days when you have a Saviour, and Jesus is born, and has raised from the dead, and you have a Gospel for sinners? No! No! - John R. Rice

Unbelief in Christ and the Bible is not based on learning; it is based on sin. Modernists, Unitarians, infidels are not that because they are intelligent; they are that because they are rebels. When a man does not believe in Christ, it is not an honest, "I cannot," but it is a stubborn, "I will not." - John R. Rice [Is Jesus God?, pg. 7]

Any man who pretends to preach the religion of Jesus, the message of Jesus, and to have the spirit of Jesus, and denies the authenticity and the authority of the Word of God, is an imposter. He is either an ignoramus who never investigated the facts, or an insincere hypocrite who does not mean what he says, but with feigned words seeks to deceive the simple. The religion of Jesus involves an infallible Bible. - John R. Rice [Is Jesus God?, pg. 16]

No one is a friend of the Lord Jesus Christ who denies that He is Lord, who denies He is the pre-existent Christ, who denies He is what He claims to be, and would make Him an illegitimate human child, an imposter, claiming what He was not. - John R. Rice [Is Jesus God?, pg. 37]

Those who do not believe that Jesus is Christ, that He is Lord, that He is coming again, are accursed. So said Paul [1 Cor. 16:22]. So say I and others who believe the Bible and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Why should I be more civil than Paul? When divine inspiration in the Bible puts a curse on unbelievers in Christ, who am I to contradict divine inspiration? - John R. Rice [Is Jesus God?, pg. 37]