471 Quotes by J. C. Ryle

The heart of man is the same in every age. The spiritual medicine which it requires is always the same.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

There are many things which are not needful. Riches are not needful. Health is not needful. Fine clothes are not needful. Noble friends are not needful. The favour of the world is not needful. Gifts and learning are not needful. Millions have reached heaven without these things. Thousands are reaching heaven every year without them. But no one ever reached heaven without “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.

Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!

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.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps.

Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. Christ “lifted up” and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians “enter into the holiest,” and are at length landed in glory.

We can never hear too much about Jesus Christ.