Quotes from JC Ryle
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
- JC Ryle
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
- JC Ryle
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
- JC Ryle
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
- JC Ryle
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
- JC Ryle
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'
- JC Ryle
No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.
- JC Ryle
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
- JC Ryle
It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".
- JC Ryle
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
- JC Ryle
A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone
- JC Ryle
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.
- JC Ryle