471 Quotes by J. C. Ryle

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.