J.C. Ryle Quotes

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

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.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

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.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

The best of men are men at best

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.