471 Quotes by J. C. Ryle

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them...

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.

Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church.

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.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?