Quotes from J.C. Ryle

There are no spiritual games without pains. I would soon expect farmer just prosper in business who contended himself with sowing fields and never looking at them till harvest as expect a believer to attain much holiness who is not diligent in his Bible reading, his prayers, and his use of Sundays.

Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.

We shall do well to remember that, when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

Our hearts are weak. Our sins are many. We need a Redeemer who is able to save to the uttermost and deliver from the wrath to come. We have such a Redeemer in Jesus Christ. He is the Mighty God (Isaiah 9:6).

Pero la verdad lisa y llana es que los hombres seguirán confundiendo dos cosas que son diferentes: La justificación y la santificación: - En cuanto a justificación las palabras para decirle al hombre son: "Cree, sólo cree". - En cuanto a santificación las palabras tienen que ser: "Mantente en guardia, ora y lucha". Lo que Dios ha dividido, no lo mezclemos y confundamos nosotros.

This is the way to enjoy much inward comfort in this world, to have bright assurance in death, to leave broad evidences behind us. and at last to receive a great crown.

It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!

Faith is to prayer what the feather is to the arrow: without it prayer will not hit the mark.

One thief was saved that no sinner might despair, but only one, that no sinner might presume.

Describe el estado de cada hombre y mujer en el mundo que no se ha convertido a Dios. ¡No puedo imaginarme una condición peor! Ya es bastante malo no tener dinero, ni salud, ni casa, ni amigos. Pero es mucho peor estar "sin Cristo".

People will never set their faces decidedly toward heaven and live like pilgrims until they really feel that they are in danger of hell. Let us all try to revive the old teaching about sin to our young children, our older children, and in our schools, colleges, and universities.

Esté preparado para la enemistad de las puertas del infierno. Póngase toda la armadura de Dios (Ef. 6). De la torre de David colgaban mil escudos (Cnt. 4:4), listos para el uso del pueblo de Dios. Las armas de nuestra guerra son espirituales y han sido usadas por millones de pobres pecadores como nosotros, y nunca han fallado.

The cross sometimes means the afflictions and trials which believers in Christ have to go through if they follow Christ faithfully for their religion's sake.

La fe es el engranaje con la cual gira la victoria. El éxito depende enteramente de la fe.

Conocer la perfección inconmensurable de Dios y nuestra inmensa imperfección, ver nuestras propias faltas e inconmensurable corrupción, es el A-B-C de una fe salvadora.

The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked. Worldly people sometimes complain with reason that "religious" persons, so-called, are not so amiable and unselfish and good-natured as others who make no profession of religion. Yet sanctification, in its place and proportion, is quite as important as justification.

We can depend upon it that people will never come to Jesus and stay with Jesus and live for Jesus unless they really know why they are to come and what their need is.

If I do not mean what I say, I am trifling with God.

is no disgrace to be poor. The laborer who serves Christ faithfully is far more honorable in God's eyes than the nobleman who serves sin.

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

Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."—Revelation 1:18

Growth in grace is the best evidence of spiritual health and prosperity. In a child or a flower or a tree, we are all aware that when there is no growth, there is something wrong. Healthy life in an animal or plant will always show itself by progress and increase. It is the same with our souls. If they are progressing and doing well, they will grow.

La gente nunca se propondrá decididamente ir en dirección al cielo y a vivir como peregrinos hasta que sientan que realmente corren peligro de ir al infierno.

If there is anything which a man ought to do thoroughly, authentically, truly, honestly, and with all of his heart, it is the business of his soul. If there is any work which he ought never to slight, and do in a careless fashion, it is the great work of "working out his own salvation" (Philippians 2:12). Believer in Christ, remember this! Whatever you do in religion, do it well. Be authentic. Be thorough. Be honest. Be true.