J.C. Ryle Quotes

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

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.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.

The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

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.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

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.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.