Quotes from J. C. Ryle

1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning.

Some made it an excuse for not attending the church service on a Sunday morning, that they could not awake early enough to get their families ready. He provided for this also. Taking a bell in his hand, he set out every Sunday for some months at five in the morning, and went round the most distant parts of the parish inviting all the inhabitants to the house of God.

Rarely do we see a person so entirely taken up with spiritual matters, that attention to this world's affairs is made a secondary matter or postponed. And why is it so? Simply because true conversions to God are uncommon.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my noblest powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

La señal de la sangre de Cristo es el único distintivo que puede salvarnos de la destrucción. Cuando los ángeles del cielo estén separando las ovejas de los cabritos en el día final, si no estamos marcados con la sangre de la expiación, más nos vale nunca haber nacido.

I want to know one thing,—the way to heaven—how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me the book of God! I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book.

There are Lutherans and Wesleyans in the present day, but there are no Whitefieldites. No! The great evangelist of last century was a simple, guileless man, who lived for one thing only, and that was to preach Christ.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.