J.C. Ryle Quotes
A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.
God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.
The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.
When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.
That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.
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 greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.
It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.
It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.
