John R. Rice Quotes

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.

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.

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!

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.

The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.

Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.

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.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

You can't win everybody to the Lord, but you can always win somebody.

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.

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

Salvation is a free gift.

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.

If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

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.

According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.