We [wrongly] feel that heaven is bearable, all right, when one has sucked dry all the pleasures of earth. We feel that, only after old age has come upon us, when life is a burden, when health has failed, when we are in the way and our children don’t want us, then perhaps we should be resigned to go to Heaven. Subconsciously we look upon heaven as a scrapheap for the worn-out and useless, a kind of old people’s home – better than nothing but not as good as this world, with youth, health and prosperity.
— John R. Rice (1895–1980), Evangelist
Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Time & Transience
Occasions: For Reflection
John R. Rice
Der US-amerikanische baptistische Evangelist und Autor John R. Rice (1895–1980) war eine führende Stimme des christlichen Fundamentalismus des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er begründete die einflussreiche Publikation „The Sword of the Lord“, forderte kompromisslose theologische Abgrenzung und geriet insbesondere wegen seiner Schriften zur Verteidigung der Rassentrennung sowie patriarchaler Rollenbilder in die Kritik. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnen vor allem seine praktischen Ausführungen zu beharrlichem Gebet und persönlicher Evangelisation.
All quotes by John R. Rice (9)
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
C.S. Lewis
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Helmut Thielicke
Charles Haddon Spurgeon