J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.
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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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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
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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 minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
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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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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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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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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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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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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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Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
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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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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 rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.