J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
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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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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 Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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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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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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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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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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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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.