Quotes from J. C. Ryle

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

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.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

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.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.