21 Quotes by Charles Caldwell Ryrie

By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.

Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

To be filled with the Spirit means to be controlled by.

The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person – the Holy Spirit.

There could be no such experience if death means extinction or cessation. Death always means separation, and it does in Romans 6 as well.

Spirituality is a grownup yet growing relation to the Holy Spirit.