Quotes from JC Ryle

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

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

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

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

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.