Quotes from J. C. Ryle

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

So that the best believer, if he knows what he says, and says the truth, is but a sinner at the best.

In another letter he says: "A man may be constitutionally meek as the lamb, constitutionally kind as the spaniel, constitutionally cheerful as the lark, and constitutionally modest as the owl; but these things are not sanctification. No sweet, humble, heavenly tempers, no sanctifying graces, are found but from the cross.

Whenever a church keeps back Christ crucified, or puts anything whatever in that foremost place which Christ crucified should always have, from that moment a church ceases to be useful.

El miembro más débil de la familia de Cristo tiene mucho más valor y es más preciado a los ojos de Dios que el hombre del mundo más prominente. El primero vive para Dios y vivirá para siempre; el otro, con toda su superioridad, sigue muerto en su pecado. ¡Tú