J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The believer who follows the Lord most fully will ordinarily enjoy the most assured hope, and have the clearest persuasion of his own salvation.
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The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.
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Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
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Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
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We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
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If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
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There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
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The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
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Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.