What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
J. C. RYLENever be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
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Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
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Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
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Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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