Quotes from J.C. Ryle

A holy man will follow after meekness, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, government of his tongue. He will bear much, forbear much, overlook much and be slow to talk of standing on his rights. We see a bright example of this in the behaviour of David when Shimei cursed him, and of Moses when Aaron and Miriam spake against him (2 Samuel 16: 10; Numbers 12: 3).

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, "I know it and will not cry for mercy.

what miserable creatures great men are when they have no high principles within them and no faith in the reality of a God above them.

There are imperfections in our best works: we do not love God so much as we are bound to do, with all our hearts, mind, and power; we do not fear God so much as we ought to do; we do not pray to God but with many and great imperfections. We give, forgive, believe, live, and hope imperfectly; we speak, think, and do imperfectly; we fight against the devil, the world, and the flesh imperfectly. Let us, therefore, not be ashamed to confess plainly our state of imperfections.

Above all let us humbly pray for the teaching of the Holy Spirit. He alone can apply truth to our hearts, and make us profit by what we read.

Cristo es la fuente principal, tanto del cristianismo doctrinal como del práctico.

Grace does not run in families. It needs something more than good examples and good advice to make us children of God. Those who are born again are not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, (John 1:13.) Praying parents should pray night and day, that their children may be born of the Spirit.

Aquellos que el Espíritu atrae a Jesús son los que el Espíritu ha convencido de pecado. Sin una convicción total de pecado, el hombre puede acudir a Jesús y seguirle por un tiempo, pero pronto se apartará y volverá al mundo.

Beloved children, I am sorry to tell you—that there are many people going to Hell. "For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to Hell, and many enter through it!" I am afraid that many children are going to Hell. I see many boys and girls who are so naughty and ill-behaved, that I am sure they are not fit for Heaven. And if they are not fit for Heaven—where will they go if they die? There is only one other place to which they can go. THEY MUST GO TO HELL!

me niego a decirle a ningún convertido que necesita una segunda conversión y que algún día dará un paso enorme a un estado de total consagración. Me niego a enseñarlo porque no veo en las Escrituras justificación alguna para hacerlo. Me niego a enseñarlo porque creo que la tendencia de la doctrina es totalmente maliciosa, que deprime al humilde de corazón y llena de orgullo al superficial, al ignorante y al presuntuoso, en un grado sumamente peligroso. 7.

Justifying faith is a grace that does not work, but simply trusts, rests, and leans on Christ (Romans 4:5). Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action. It works by charity (Galatians 5:6), and like a driving force, it moves the whole inward man.

Who taught the child these things? Where did he learn them? The Bible alone can answer these questions! Of all the foolish things that parents say about their children there is none worse than the common saying: 'My son has a good heart at the bottom.

En resumen, donde no hay una santificación de la vida, no hay una fe verdadera en Cristo.

Estas cuatro palabras son la esencia y la sustancia del cristianismo. Si nuestro corazón realmente puede estar de acuerdo con ellas, le hará bien a nuestra alma. Si no, seguramente, todavía tenemos mucho que aprender. Voy

Where there is no heart, there may be lip-work and tongue-work, but there is nothing that God listens to,—there is no prayer.

holy man will follow after temperance and self-denial. He will labour to mortify the desires of his body, to crucify his flesh with his affections and lusts, to curb his passions, to restrain his

muerte de Jesús o Jesús reinando, es el pensamiento trascendente que siempre encontraremos en sus mentes.

No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.

We are frequently told by the apostle Paul that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law (Romans 3:28), but not once are we told that we are "sanctified by faith without the deeds of the law." On the contrary, we are expressly told by James that the faith by which we are visibly and demonstratively justified before man is a faith which if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself (James 2:17).

The Bible alone gives a true and faithful account of man. It does not flatter him as novels and romances do; it does not conceal his faults and exaggerate his goodness, it paints him just as he is.

the perpetual presence of Christ with that Holy Catholic Church, which is His body, is the great secret of its continuance and security. It lives on, and cannot die, because Jesus Christ is in the midst of it. It is a ship tossed with storm and tempest; but it cannot sink, because Christ is on board. Its members may be persecuted, oppressed, imprisoned, robbed, beaten, beheaded, or burned; but His true Church is never extinguished.

It describes him as a fallen creature, of his own nature inclined to evil, a creature needing not only a pardon, but a new heart, to make him fit for heaven. It shows him to be a corrupt being under every circumstance, when left to himself, corrupt after the loss of paradise, corrupt after the flood, corrupt when fenced in by divine laws and commandments, corrupt when the Son of God came down and visited him in the flesh, corrupt in the face of warnings, promises. miracles, judgments, mercies.