Quotes from J. C. Ryle

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

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.

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

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.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.