Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.
J. C. RYLELet your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
More J. C. Ryle Quotes
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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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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
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Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.
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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
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Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
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Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
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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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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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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
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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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Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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