J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
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People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
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In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'
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The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.
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A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
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The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
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Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!
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True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.
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Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
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Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.
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Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
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A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
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Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity - to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance.
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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.