471 Quotes by J. C. Ryle

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... The poorest Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.

The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.