Quotes from J. C. Ryle

The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

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.

Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

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

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

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.

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

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.