Quotes from JC Ryle

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

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Death is a solemn thing, and never so much so as when we see it close at hand. The grave is a chilling, heart-sickening place, and it is vain to pretend it has no terrors.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

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?

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. I cannot forget this. I look at men's lives. I believe that few pray.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

If I do not mean what I say, I am trifling with God.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.