Quotes from JC Ryle
Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
- JC Ryle
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
- JC Ryle
Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.
- JC Ryle
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
- JC Ryle
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.
- JC Ryle
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
- JC Ryle
There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.
- JC Ryle
A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
- JC Ryle
The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
- JC Ryle
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
- JC Ryle
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
- JC Ryle
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
- JC Ryle