471 Quotes by J. C. Ryle

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.

The best of men are men at best

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system