J.C. Ryle Quotes

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

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.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

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.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Hell itself is truth known too late

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.