Quotes from JC Ryle
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
- JC Ryle
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
- JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
- JC Ryle
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
- JC Ryle
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
- JC Ryle
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
- JC Ryle
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
- JC Ryle
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
- JC Ryle
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
- JC Ryle
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
- JC Ryle