Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J. C. RYLEYour trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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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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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
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It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
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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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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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However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
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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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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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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
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Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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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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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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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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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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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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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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