Quotes about Redemption
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
- JC Ryle
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
- JC Ryle
Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
- JC Ryle
It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.
- JC Ryle
We can never hear too much about Jesus Christ.
- JC Ryle
If it really was true that all would sooner or later reach heaven, and hell sooner or later be emptied of inhabitants, it never could be said that it would have been "good for a man not to have been born." Hell itself would lose its terrors, if it had an end. Hell itself would be endurable, if after millions of ages there was a HOPE of freedom and of heaven.
- JC Ryle
One thief was saved that no sinner might despair, but only one, that no sinner might presume.
- JC Ryle
But in some places the cross also indicates the doctrine that Christ died for sinners on the cross — the atonement that He made for sinners by His suffering for them on the cross, the complete and perfect sacrifice for sin that He offered when He gave His own body to be crucified.
- JC Ryle
nothing will ever allow them to find rest except submission to the old doctrines of man's ruin and Christ's redemption — and simple childlike faith in Jesus.
- JC Ryle
It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, "I know it and will not cry for mercy.
- JC Ryle
Do we ourselves repent? This, after all, is the question which most nearly concerns us. Have we been convinced of sin by the Holy Spirit? Have we fled to Jesus for deliverance from the wrath to come? Do we know anything of a broken and contrite heart, and a thorough hatred of sin? Can we say, "I repent," as well as "I believe?" If not, let us not delude our minds with the idea that our sins are yet forgiven. It is written, "Except you repent, you shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3.)
- JC Ryle
Saving faith and real converting grace will always produce some conformity to the image of Jesus.
- JC Ryle