God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. John R. Rice More Quotes by John R. Rice More Quotes From John R. Rice You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face John R. Rice dadchristmasspiritual If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your heart. It is a prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit, a prayer that God will be pleased to hear. John R. Rice religiousprayergod The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake. John R. Rice stakeschristianworld The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them. John R. Rice best-waycriminalsway People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine. John R. Rice doctrinefellowshippeople 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 delightchristiandoe 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... (see: Matt 7:21-23.] John R. Rice christianheavenpeople The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient. John R. Rice convenient Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage. John R. Rice happy-marriagesexworld What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you. John R. Rice christianheartjobs Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save. John R. Rice forgivenesschristiangod When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred. John R. Rice hatredessencechristianity No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless. John R. Rice futuretimepast All Satan's Apples Have Worms. 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 applesfakechristian The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence. John R. Rice girlchristiandrinking 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 heartachecausestears Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. John R. Rice wickednessinspirationcivilization The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought. John R. Rice prayerchristianjesus The Saviour said He was going to prepare us a place. How wonderful it will be is beyond human computation. Remember that in six days Christ made the heavens and earth and all that in them is.... If He made so many wonders in six days, then what beauties and marvels He has surely prepared during these 1900 years in which He has been preparing our mansions in the Father's House! John R. Rice housefatheryears You can't win everybody to the Lord, but you can always win somebody. John R. Rice cant-winlordwinning
