J.C. Ryle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by J.C. Ryle
J.C. Ryle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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.
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.
Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.
Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.
Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.
Where there is no heart, there may be lip-work and tongue-work, but there is nothing that God listens to, - there is no prayer.
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer ... He may sometimes keep us long waiting ... but He will never send us empty away.
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord ... He waits quietly for the King.
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.
I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
Justification is the act of God about us and is not easily discerned by others. Sanctification is the work of God within us and cannot be hid
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
Yes: I repeat it this day. I know no effectual remedy for the love of self, but a believing apprehension of the love of Christ.
A sin ... consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.