J. C. Ryle Quotes
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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
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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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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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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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A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
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God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
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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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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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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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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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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
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A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.
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The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.
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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.