J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
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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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If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.
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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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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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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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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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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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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
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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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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
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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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The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
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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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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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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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Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.