Quotes from JC Ryle
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
- JC Ryle
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
- JC Ryle
Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
- JC Ryle
The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.
- JC Ryle
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God.
- JC Ryle
We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.
- JC Ryle
Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.
- JC Ryle
Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
- JC Ryle
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
- JC Ryle
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
- JC Ryle
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
- JC Ryle
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.
- JC Ryle