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.
J. C. RYLEObedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
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The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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