John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

We should note here that men need the fellowship of good women. In the Garden of Eden, God had said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

If men are to be strong, they need the tenderness of good women. It is foolish to talk to much about equality between men and women. Men and women are different. A man ought to be a good man and a woman ought to be a good woman. Each has his place, and each needs the other. - John R. Rice [Genesis, pg. 388]

These shepherds [Luke 2:15-20] were ignorant, but they believed the words of the angel, the message sent from Heaven! And in my heart this Christmas season I praise the Lord for millions of common people who still believe all the story of the Babe who was born in Bethlehem, believe that the angels really appeared, that the Glory of God shone round about, that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary as the Scripture says. Other people may have believed after they went to see, but the shepherds believed before they went! ... Sin is back of all the unbelief about the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible and God's revelation about salvation. One reason the angels brought the message to those shepherds is that they knew the shepherds would believe it. - John R. Rice [The Birth of the Saviour, pg. 37]

Every lost man has a wicked heart and that heart won't be changed tomorrow without Jesus. There is something in him that is still tough and mean. There is something in there which still doesn't want to give up its own way; and so a convenient time never comes.

If you don't say, "By God's grace I am going to repent and turn to Christ NOW because I ought to, because it is right, because it is the only safe way, the right way, it is the only way to be sure," you are not going to get saved. - John R. Rice [Sweet Family Ties in Heaven and Hell, pg. 189]

Are there those who say that the virgin birth is inconsequential, that to believe it or not doesn't matter? They are fools. Yea, more than that, they are wicked unbelievers. Those who speak lightly of the virgin birth do not accept the awful fallen state of a race of sinners that must be redeemed. They do not fathom the atonement on the cross, nor the marvelous salvation by God's grace for condemned sinners. Oh, if God has become man, if an entire race is to be brought back from Hell's ruin and offered salvation, and if an endless eternity is to rejoice in the marvel of God's salvation for sinners, then do not expect all this to occur in some ordinary, routine manner. Only a miracle of God could make God a man. - John R. Rice ["No Man Cared for my Soul", pg. 130]

Well, for my part I will take my stand by this same dying thief. You may claim the righteousness of the Pharisees, or the position and honor of Pilate, or the austere abstraction of the centurion, or make whatever claim you will for Heaven, but I will claim the same mercy the dying thief claimed. I too was a sinner, ruined and undone by sin until Jesus found me. - John R. Rice [Watching Jesus Die, pg. 82]

Note, "Unto us a child is born." "Unto us" means that Jesus is to be born to mankind. The Lord Jesus is to be as we are- with limitations- not morally, for He never sinned, but in the surroundings, in the environment, in the temptations, in the poverty, in the heartbreak that sometimes comes to people. - John R. Rice [The Best News One Ever heard: A Saviour is Born!, pg. 4-5]

The unpardonable sin is committed only by lost people, and then it is the sin of those who do not want to be saved and deliberately refuse salvation. There is no other unpardonable sin. - John R. Rice [page 424-425, Dr. Rice, Here Are More Questions...]