J. C. Ryle quotes - page 2

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. (J. C. Ryle)
The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin. View quote
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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. View quote
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world. View quote
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The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home. View quote
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Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty. View quote
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Hell itself is truth known too late. View quote
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Wealth is no mark of God's favor. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure. View quote
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The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end. View quote
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Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church. View quote
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. (J. C. Ryle)
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. View quote
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. View quote
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The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification. View quote
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept. View quote
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character. View quote
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil. View quote
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning. View quote
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has? View quote
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With all the stir made about education, the ignorance of our own country's history is something lamentable and appalling and depressing. View quote
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A true worshipper will every year know more of self, and God, and heaven, and duty, and doctrine, and practice, and experience. His religion is a living thing, and will grow. (J. C. Ryle)
The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion. View quote
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Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace. View quote
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Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy. View quote
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The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom. View quote
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