Quotes from J. C. Ryle

If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.

The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

Hell itself is truth known too late

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.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

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?

We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.