J. C. Ryle Quotes
-
God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
-
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
-
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.
-
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
-
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
-
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
-
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.
-
If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.
-
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.
-
I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.
-
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
-
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!
-
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.
-
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
-
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
-
Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
-
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.