J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
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Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.
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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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Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
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Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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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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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.
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Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
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The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
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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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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.