We’ll say good night here and good morning up there.
– John R. Rice
Death | Heaven
Never put a question mark where God has put a period.
– John R. Rice
Faith
If you were enough like God, someone wouldn’t like you.
– John R. Rice
Godliness
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
– John R. Rice
Christmas
Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.
– John R. Rice
Heaven | Hell
His brokenhearted cry on the cross, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,” shows God’s heart toward sinners.
– John R. Rice
The Cross
No matter what a man’s past may have been, his future is spotless.
– John R. Rice
The Future
God’s people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.
– John R. Rice
Baptism
You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends, yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at Rome!
– John R. Rice
Christmas | Joy
People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.
– John R. Rice
Fellowship | Doctrine
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of “good” people, “moral” people, church members, even church workers – yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers – will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord… [Spoken in Matthew 7:21-23.]
– John R. Rice
Heaven | Hell
We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.
– John R. Rice
Thankfulness
To leave this matter of saving souls to preachers is not only heartless; it is inexcusably wicked.
– John R. Rice
Preaching | Evangelism
You cannot do God’s work without God’s power.
– John R. Rice
Service | Power
Present-day wickedness, apostasy and modern civilization cannot prevent revival.
– John R. Rice
Revival
Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.
– John R. Rice
Compromise
Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.
– John R. Rice
Prayer
Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.
– John R. Rice
Marriage
After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one’s own father and mother.
– John R. Rice
Parents
Every preacher, if he is saved, has this Great Commission. If you don’t win souls, you have failed in your Christian life. No one is a good Christian who doesn’t win souls. You are not doing the first things He said you were to do after you got baptized. Those who do not win souls are disobedient in the main command of Jesus Christ, and that is not a small matter.
– John R. Rice
Evangelism
What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!
– John R. Rice
Evangelism | Hell
So, I tell you, it is foolish to expect the infinite God to place the dynamite of Heaven in the careless hands of a Christian who does not know the travail of soul that Christ had, and has not entered into the burden for sinners and the sense of shame over sin.
– John R. Rice
Heaven
According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.
– John R. Rice
Prayer | The Bible
Human art and science are employed to make lust appealing, to make drinking popular, to present the world’s ungodly standard of morals as the ideal for the young and unsuspecting youth who sees the films. I find that every indictment I made against the movie industry and the theater six years ago (1932) is still true.
– John R. Rice
Immorality
I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan’s apples have worms.
– John R. Rice
Satan
It is better to be sick in the will of God than well outside His blessed will.
– John R. Rice
Rebellion
The movies spend so many millions of dollars in publicity that no great medium of expression or opinion in America remains uncontrolled.
– John R. Rice
Immorality
When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.
– John R. Rice
Salvation
It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.
– John R. Rice
Religion | Hell
This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.
– John R. Rice
Life
To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.
– John R. Rice
Perseverance
I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.
– John R. Rice
Christmas | Evangelism
The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.
– John R. Rice
Apathy | Persecution
No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God!
– John R. Rice
Christians | Scripture | Zeal
When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
– John R. Rice
Hatred
Not till I die or not till Jesus comes, will I ever be eased of this burden, these tears, this toil to save souls.
– John R. Rice
Evangelism