Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
J. C. RYLELet us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
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It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
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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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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
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God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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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.
J. C. RYLE