Yesterday I posted some great quotes from J. C. Ryle. Today I would like to share some additional quotes from Ryle that really blessed me. I pray they touch your heart also.1
“The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.”
“The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ’s voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are ‘filled.’”
“Let us watch against pride in every shape – pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.”
“It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousness, our ease and our worldliness.”
“Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.”
“People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.”
“Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!”
“Hell, itself is truth known too late.”
“The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.”
“Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.”
“The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.”
“Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God’s sovereignty.”
“A man’s state before God may always be measured by his prayers.”
“If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.”
“The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.”
“We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.”
“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”
“Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.”
“Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.”
“If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.”
“A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.”
“HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.”
“The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.”
“That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.”
“The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.”
“Be very sure of this, – people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.”
“A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.”
1 All of these quotations are from the website below:
TOP 25 QUOTES BY J. C. RYLE (of 374) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)