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. I cannot forget this. I look at men's lives. I believe that few pray.

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.

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

Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils.--They were the school of God, in which He trains the children of grace for glory--the medicines which are needful to purify our corrupt wills--the furnace which must burn away our dross--the knife which must cut the ties that bind us to the world.

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

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.